Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies

Intellectual struggles with the animal question-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship<br>between humans and other animals. <p/><em>The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies</em> brings these diverse evaluations together for the first time paying special attention to the commodification of animals the degradation of the natural world and a staggering loss of animal habitat and species extinction and the increasing need for humans to<br>coexist with other animals in urban rural and natural contexts. Linda Kalof maps these themes into the five major categories that structure this volume: Animals in the Landscape of Law Politics and Public Policy; Animal Intentionality Agency and Reflexive Thinking; Animals as Objects in Science <br>Food Spectacle and Sport; Animals in Cultural Representations; and Animals in Ecosystems. Written by international scholars with backgrounds in philosophy law history English art sociology geography archaeology environmental studies cultural studies and animal advocacy the thirty<br>chapters in this handbook investigate key issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.<br>