The Next Social Contract: Animals, the Anthropocene, and Biopolitics - Softcover

Gabardi, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439914125 ISBN 13: 9781439914120

Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S., 2017

Inhaltsangabe

In his provocative book The Next Social Contract, Wayne Gabardi rigorously considers the fate of animals in the twenty-first century. He claims that if we are to address the challenges raised by the Anthropocene-the period where nonhuman beings tend to be mere extras, often subsumed under the umbrella notion of "nature"-we need to radically rethink our basic ethical outlook and develop a new, "more-than-human" social contract.

Gabardi's wide-ranging and multidisciplinary analysis focuses on four principal battlegrounds of animal biopolitics in the twenty first century: the extinction of wild animals, the crisis of oceanic animals, industrialized farm animals and the future of industrial agribusiness, and the situation of contact-zone animals moving into human-occupied habitats.

In his recasting of the social contract, Gabardi envisions a culture shift in human-animal relations toward posthumanism that features the ethical and political prioritization of animal life so it is on par with that of human well-being.

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Wayne Gabardi is Professor of Political Theory and Honors Program Faculty at Idaho State University. He is the author of Negotiating Postmodernism.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1439914125
• ISBN 13: 9781439914120
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande