A collection of essays exploring historical animal geography, i.e. how spatially situated human-animal relations have changed through time, creating a spatio-temporal approach to animal studies.

Topics: History, Social Sciences
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In countering scientific skepticism about anthropomorphism, an anthropologist focuses on a single animal emotion, grief, and supports her contentions regarding its existence and depth through...

Topics: Science and Sentience
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Arguing for a hierarchical approach in which people count more than animals and some animals count for more than others.

Topics: Philosophy and Ethics
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The author’s approach to effective advocacy on behalf of animals is based in the principle that persuading people to reduce their animal consumption, for any reason, is the vital first step to...

Topics: Attitudes and Activism
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Written for a popular audience, this book examines the question of why most people's consumption behaviors are not in line with their ethical beliefs regarding the treatment of animals.

Topics: Attitudes and Activism
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This book provides a detailed examination of the political controversy surrounding the Canadian seal hunt, which has spanned four decades. It explores the various counter-strategies implemented by the...

Topics: Animals in the Wild, History
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This collection of essays from scholars in biology, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, political science, and philosophy, as well as from those doing fieldwork in their own countries...

Topics: Animals in the Wild, Attitudes and Activism
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Questions, from a critical ecofeminist stance, whether legal personhood is the best means to achieving total interspecies liberation and suggests that animal studies scholars and activists should use...

Topics: Philosophy and Ethics
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An examination of human attitudes toward different animals that focuses on the extreme contradictions inherent in those attitudes and our resulting relationships with different animals, encompassing...

Topics: Attitudes and Activism
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A collection of essays on zoos and possibilities for change.

Topics: Animals in Entertainment, Law and Policy
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