Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., internationally award-winning author, educator and community organizer, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Justice Studies, and Criminology in the Institute of Public Safety and the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. He is co-founder of the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Institute for Critical Animal Studies, and the field of critical animal studies, with publishing over forty books. Amber E. George, Ph.D., is Instructor of Philosophy at Misericordia University. She is editor of Journal of Critical Animal Studies and co-editor of Screening the Nonhuman: Representations of Animal Others in the Media and The Intersectionality of Critical Animal, Disability, and Environmental Studies.

“Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies is an amazing and needed text within the field of critical animal studies. This collection of historical brilliant and cutting-edge essays truly capsulate what critical animal studies is.”—Peace Studies Journal

• Acknowledgments – Sarat Colling: Foreword – Richard J. White: Preface—Critical Animal Studies: Tracing Historical Lines in the Sand – Amber E. George/Anthony J. Nocella II: Introduction: Respecting the Past, while Defending the Future of Critical Animal Studies – Carmen Dell’Aversano: The Love Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken: Queering the Human–Animal Bond – Jovian Parry: From Beastly Perversions to the Zoological Closet: Animals, Nature, and Homosex – Rasmus Rahbek Simonsen: A Queer Vegan Manifesto – Daniel Salomon: From Marginal Cases to Linked Oppressions: Reframing the Conflict between the Autistic Pride and Animal Rights Movements – Zachary Richter: Intersectionality and the Nonhuman Disabled Body: Challenging the Neocapitalist Techno-scientific Reproduction of Ableism and Speciesism – Sunaura Taylor: Animal Crips – Amy J. Fitzgerald: Doing Time in Slaughterhouses: A Green Criminological Commentary on Slaughterhouse Work Programs for Prison Inmates – Lauren Corman: Getting Their Hands Dirty: Raccoons, Freegans, and Urban "Trash" – Maneesha Deckha: The Subhuman as a Cultural Agent of Violence – Anthony J. Nocella II: Animal Advocates for Prison and Slave Abolition: A Transformative Justice Approach to Movement Politics for an End to Racism – Erika Cudworth: "Most Farmers Prefer Blondes": The Dynamics of Anthroparchy in Animals Becoming Meat – Kathryn Asher/Elizabeth Cherry: Home Is Where the Food Is: Barriers to Vegetarianism and Veganism in the Domestic Sphere – Carmen M. Cusack: Feminism and Husbandry: Drawing the Fine Line between Mine and Bovine – Claudia Serrato: Ecological Indigenous Foodways and the Healing of All Our Relations – Adam J. Fix: "Where Is the Seat for the Buffalo?": Placing Nonhuman Animals in the Idle No More Movement – A. O. Owoseni/I. O. Olatoye: Yoruba Ethico-cultural Perspectives and Understanding of Animal Ethics – Contributors – Index.