Atsuko Matsuoka is a professor in the School of Social Work at York University. Her publications include Ghosts and Shadows (co-authored with John Sorenson, 2001).John Sorenson is Professor of Sociology at Brock University.His many publications include About Canada: Animal Rights (2010), Ape (2009), Ghosts and Shadows (co-authored with Atsuko Matsuoka, 2001) and Imagining Ethiopia (1993).

New Directions in Critical Animal Studies is a comprehensive and wide-ranging transdisciplinary volume that will surely set the standard for years to come. Essays by scholars and activists capture the essence of this ever-growing field. This forward-looking book would be an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate classes, as well as established academics, who would benefit from learning how to improve human-animal relationships in an increasingly human-dominated world.

• Introduction: Critical Animal Studies, Atsuko Matsuoka & John Sorenson / Part 1: Activism / 1. Animal Agency, Resistance, and Escape, Sarat Colling / 2. “Come closer, as close as you can... and try to help": Tolstoy, Bearing Witness and The Save Movement, Anita Krajnc & Ian Purdy / Part 2: Representing Animals / 3. Disengagement in Journalistic Discourse About Nonhuman Animals: An Analysis, Karen Davis / 4. Advertising oppression: The reproduction of anthroparchy on UK television, Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart / Part 3: New Disciplinary Advances / 5. Animal Emancipation and Historical Archaeology: A Pairing Long Overdue, Daniel Sayers & Justin Uehlein / 6. Political Animals? Finding Space for Animals in Contemporary Political Science, Paul Hamilton / 7. Making Space for Anarchist Geographies in Critical Animal Studies, Richard J. White and Simon Springer / 8. Psychological Implications of Undervaluing Animals: The Interspecies Model of Prejudice, Gordon Hodson & Kimberley Costello / Part 4: Animals and the Law / 9. Building a Better Legal Order for Animals: The Benefits of Beingness as an Alternative to Personhood in Rethinking Law’s Response to Animals, Maneesha Deckha / 10. Posthumanist animal studies and zoöpolitical law, Krithika Srinavasan / Part 5: Philosophical Arguments/ 11. Animal Ethics and the New Materialism, Josephine Donovan / 12. Affectiveness and the nonhuman world: Examining the critique of empathy, Elisa Aaltola / 13. The Radical Potential of Analytic Animal Liberation Philosophy, Jason Wyckoff / Part 6: Indigeneity and Animal Rights / 14. The Roots of My Indigenous Veganism, Margaret Robinson / 15. Indigenous Worldviews and Critical Animal Studies: Decolonization and revealing truncated narratives of dominance, Ruth Koleszar-Green and Atsuko Matsuoka / Index