Two years ago I wrote “From Speciesism to Theriocide: Wildlife Trade and Industrial Animal Farming as Embodiments of the Genocide–Ecocide Continuum”. Victimizing billions of animals every year, industrial animal farming and wildlife trade appear to me as the main organized forms through which we confine, exploit, torture, and massacre nonhuman animals. I explore why these criminal sectors should be treated as a continuum between genocide and ecocide, not as normal, necessary, legal economies. My paper is a chapter in the book 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘥𝘰𝘮: 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦. You can read my paper here: https://lnkd.in/dVB2kbmc
The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of #anthropogenic violence against animals cast the #Anthropocene as an era of criminality and loss driven by boundless human exceptionalism, forcing a reckoning with and an urgent reimagining of human-#animal relations. Without the sleights of hand that would lump “humanity” into a singular Anthropos of the Anthropocene, the authors recognize the differential nature of human impacts on animal life and the biosphere as a whole, while affirming the complexity of animal worlds and their profound imbrications in human cultures, societies, and industries. Confronting the reality of the Sixth Mass Extinction and mass animal death requires forms of narrativity that draw on traditional genres and disciplines, while signaling a radical break with modern temporalities and norms. Chapters in this volume reflect this challenge, while embodying the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry into non-human animality at the edge of the abyss—#historiography, cultural #anthropology, post-colonial studies, #literarycriticism, critical animal studies, #ethics, #religiousstudies, Anthropocene studies, and #extinction studies entwine to illuminate what is arguably the greatest crisis, for all creatures, in the past 65 million years. Wendy A. Wiseman is a lecturer in Religious Studies at the @University of California Santa Barbara. She writes and presents on climate justice, ecocide law and kincentric relationality, the Anthropocene, and the Sixth Mass Extinction and lives in Istanbul. Burak Kesgin is Assistant Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Istanbul Beykent University. He teaches and publishes in the areas of social movements, environmental sociology, political economy, and inequality. He is co-editor of 'Traces of the Anthropocene' (2022, in Turkish). Read more and order this volume online from our website https://lnkd.in/ep-4rPEf or major distributors such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, YBP, ESBCO, ProQuest and indexed in Bowker Books in Print, Nielsen Pub web, and Ingram Content, among others. #animaldeath #animalviolence #criticalanimalstudies Lorelei Hanson Janelle Baker Adrienne Krone éric baratay Ishaan Selby Rimona Afana Steve Best Zoe Todd Nastasia Paul-Gera Jodey Castricano
