The Next Social Contract: Animals, The Anthropocene, and Biopolitics - Couverture rigide

Gabardi, Wayne

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1439914117 ISBN 13 : 9781439914113

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

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1439914117
• ISBN 13: 9781439914113
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible