Impersonating Animals

Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law

S. Marek Muller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2020
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-366-6 (ISBN)

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In 2011, in one sign of a burgeoning interest in the morality of human interactions with nonhuman animals, a panel hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science declared that dolphins and orcas should be legally regarded as persons. Multiple law schools now offer classes in animal law and have animal law clinics, placing their students with a growing range of animal rights and animal welfare advocacy organizations. But is legal personhood the best means to achieving total interspecies liberation? To answer that question, Impersonating Animals evaluates the rhetoric of animal rights activists Steven Wise and Gary Francione, as well as the Earth jurisprudence paradigm. Deploying a critical ecofeminist stance sensitive to the interweaving of ideas about race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, and species, author S. Marek Muller places animal rights rhetoric in the context of discourses in which some humans have been deemed more animal than others and some animals have been deemed more human than others. In bringing rhetoric and animal studies together, she shows that how we communicate about nonhuman beings necessarily affects relationships across species boundaries and among people. This book also highlights how animal studies scholars and activists can and should use ideological rhetorical criticism to investigate the implications of their tactics and strategies, emphasizing a critical vegan rhetoric as the best means of achieving liberation for human and nonhuman animals alike.

S. MAREK MULLER is an Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rhetoric(s) of Animal Rights and the Law Chapter 1. Critical Refurbishments: Ecofeminist Legal Theory and Rhetorical Methodologies Chapter 2. All Animals Are Equal (but Some Are More Equal than Others): Speciesist Personhoods in the Nonhuman Rights Project Chapter 3. For the Good of the Species: Species Essentialisms and Eugenics in Gary Francione’s “Vegan Abolitionism” Chapter 4. Radical Environmentalism as Animal Rights Law? Ecological Ambivalences and the Rhetoric of Earth Jurisprudence Conclusion: Envisioning a Critical Vegan Rhetoric References Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2020
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
ISBN-10	1-61186-366-X / 161186366X
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-366-6 / 9781611863666
Zustand	Neuware