Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies: Critical Perspectives on Food and Eating

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67935-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 739 g

Reihe: Critical Animal Studies

This book develops critical feminist animal and multispecies studies across various societal and environmental contexts. The chapters discuss timely questions broadly related to food and eating, stemming from connections drawn between critical animal studies, feminist theory, and multispecies studies. The themes explored include trans-inclusive ecofeminism, decolonial perspectives to veganism, links between the critique of ableism and animal exploitation, alternatives to dominant Western masculinities invested in meat consumption, and the politics of sex and purity in factory farming. The book explores responses to interlinked forms of exploitation by focusing on sites such as sanctuaries, educational institutions, social media, and animal advocacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Aavik, Kadri

Irni, Kuura

Joki, Milla-Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Critical Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies

Kuura Irni, Kadri Aavik and Milla-Maria Joki

PART 1: Geographies, Boundaries and Relationality

1 Naive Boars and Dummy Sows: Porcine Sex and the Politics of Purity

Marianna Szczygielska and Agata Kowalewska

2 Eating with a Cow: Feminist Multispecies Ethnography in the Kitchens of the Black Sea High Pastures of Turkey

Ezgi Burgan

PART 2: Negotiating Dependency and Care

3 Care in a Time of Anthropogenic Problems: Experiences from Sanctuary-Making in Rural Denmark

Marie Leth-Espensen

4 Negotiating Disability in Celebrity Cat Lil BUB’s Eating Videos

Milla-Maria Joki

PART 3: Revisioning the Potential of Education

5 Pedagogy of the Consumed: an Integral Feminist Lens on Veganism in Higher Education

Alka Arora

6 Human Children, Nonhuman Animals, and a Plant-Based Vegan Future

Maneesha Deckha

PART 4: Trans-Formations in Ecofeminist Theory

7 Revisiting Ecofeminist Genealogies: towards Intersectional and Trans-inclusive Ecofeminism

Kuura Irni

8 Ecofeminist Critique of the Milk Industry: from Mammal Mothers to Biocapitalist Bovines

Sanna Karhu

PART 5: Veganism and Possibilities for Resistance

9 Men’s Veganism: a Pathway towards More Egalitarian Masculinities?

Kadri Aavik

10 Staying with the Trouble in Cat Advocacy: Donna Haraway, Vegan Politics, and the Case of Cat Food

Kuura Irni

11 Fractured Locus: Resistances in the Global South and a Decolonial Ecofeminist Anti-Speciesist Praxis

Daniela Rosendo, Fabio A. G. Oliveira and Tânia A. Kuhnen

PART 6: Intersectional Animal Activisms

12 Toward Trans-Sensitive and Vegan-Intersectional Feminisms

An Interview with Panda Eriksson

13 The Future is Queer and Vegan!

An Interview with Özge Özgüner

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kadri Aavik (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. She works in gender studies, critical animal studies and vegan studies—and their intersections. Her current research focuses on vegan men and masculinities.

Kuura Irni (Ph.D.) works as University Lecturer in Gender Studies at University of Helsinki. They have published among others, in Signs, EJWS, NORA, Body and Society, and Humanimalia. Their interests include queer, trans, and decolonial feminisms, and critical multispecies studies.

Milla-Maria Joki (MA) is a Doctoral Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She studies at the Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture, and Society (UH).