"An Animal: What Is It?"
Keekok Lee discusses why posing the question “what is an animal?” is neither irrelevant nor futile.
Keekok Lee discusses why posing the question “what is an animal?” is neither irrelevant nor futile.
Clare Palmer discusses the concept of the domesticated animal contract.
Sarah Franklin introduces the term ‘breedwealth’ to examine Dolly as a unique form of property in order to make some of these connections more visible.
Gill Aitken discusses conservation in relation to individual worth.
Marthe Kiley-Worthington discusses integration of wildlife conservation, food production and development in relation to ecological agriculture and elephant conservation in Africa.
Roger Scruton discusses totemism and its ecological function.
John Simons explores the cultural studies discipline from the perspective of animal rights.
Graham Woodgate and Michael Redclift provide some theoretical starting points for constructing a social science approach to environmental issues.
Kerry H. Whiteside discusses Arendtian ecology.
Robyn Eckersley discusses the concepts of “human racism” and ecocentricm in relation to Tony Lynch and David Wells’ argument that any attempt to develop a non-anthropocentric morality must invariably slide back to either anthropocentrism (either weak or strong) or a highly repugnant misanthropy in cases of direct conflict between the survival needs of humans and nonhuman species.