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Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision - Couverture souple

Jones, Pattrice

 
9781590564622: Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1590564626 ISBN 13 : 9781590564622
Editeur : Lantern Books,US, 2014

Synopsis

When Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont announced that two oxen called Bill and Lou would be killed and turned into hamburgers despite their years of service as unofficial college and town mascots, Pattrice Jones and her colleagues at nearby VINE Sanctuary offered an alternative scenario: to allow the elderly bovines to retire to the sanctuary. What transpired after this simple offer was a catastrophe of miscommunication, misdirection and misinterpretations, as the college dug in its heels, activists piled in and social media erupted.

Part true-crime mystery, part on-the-ground reportage and part socio-cultural critique, THE OXEN AT THE INTERSECTION is a brilliant unearthing of the assumptions, preconceptions and biases that led all concerned with the lives and deaths of these two animals to fail to achieve their ends. How and why the threads of this story unravelled, as Jones reveals, raises profound questions - most particularly about how ideas rooted in history, race, gender, region and speciesism intersect and complicated strategy and activism and their desired outcomes. In the end, notes Jones, we must always ask, Where's the body?

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À propos de l'auteur

Pattrice Jones is an ecofeminist writer, scholar, and activist who, along with Miriam Jones, cofounded VINE Sanctuary, an LGBTQ-run farmed animal sanctuary that operates within an understanding of the intersection of oppressions. In addition to her books for Lantern, she has contributed chapters to Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth; Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism; Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice; Sistah Vegan; Contemporary Anarchist Studies; Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth; and Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?: Reflections on the Liberation of Animal.

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Éditeur
Lantern Books,US
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1590564626
ISBN 13 
9781590564622
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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