Anthony J. Nocella II - Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation

Praise for the Book

Powerful, provocative, challenging. Anyone interested in contemporary critical theory and radical social change will benefit from reading this book. Kudos to all the contributors!

Jason Del Gandio , Temple University

If you want to exist as a liberated soul on the edge of life-worlds, where animals, minerals, clouds, elements, and people all coexist as sacred, read this book. Its intersections take us to another dimension. Its a force to be reckoned with, wielding a transdisciplinary disruptive energy that gets to the heart of true liberation for all.

Lea Lani Kinikini , chief diversity officer, Salt Lake Community College

Anthony J. Nocella IIs and Amber E. Georges latest anthology with a diverse group of critical theory scholars around the world provide a liberating pathway forward for abilities liberation, animal liberation, earth liberation, and every other form of liberation possible. This is accomplished through employing Nocellas and Georges life-affirming methodology of lifting up the voices, ideas, and methodologies of grassroots scholar-teacher-activists on the peripheries, on our own terms toward win-win recommendations. I especially appreciate Nocellas and Georges full-hearted rejection of stigma, repression, othering, and cancel culture which has been devastating to abilities liberation. An exciting, life-affirming, and liberating anthology!

Daniel Salomon , author of Autistic Pride and graduate student in urban studies at Portland State University

Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice makes an impressive contribution to the literature. The content is excellent: Nocella and George deserve great credit for successfully bringing together the ideas and lived experiences of some of the most important global scholar-activists writing at this time.

Richard J. White , reader in economic geography, Sheffield Hallam University

A must-read book for working toward ending speciesism and for social justice for all. This scholarly text is a radical critique of oppression and domination of the ecological world. This profound total liberation book is one of the most important books within the animal rights movement, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George.

Alisha Page , director, Save the Kids

This is a total liberation book that defends radical activism and intersectional voices. Grounded in abolition pedagogy this text fights for freedom and justice. A beautiful and powerful read for anyone interested in ending oppression.

Transformative Justice Journal

A justice text for all. This environmental studies book brilliantly focuses on human rights, animal rights, and environmental rights.

Peace Studies Journal

Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice

Critical Animal Studies and Theory

Series Editors: Anthony J. Nocella II and Scott C. Hurley

This series addresses human relations with other animals in the context of socio-political relations and economic systems of power. It sees liberation not as a single-issue phenomenon, but rather as inseparably related to human rights, peace and justice, and environmental issues and movements. Rather than emphasizing abstract theory, the series links theory with practice and emphasizes the immense importance of animal advocacy for a humane, democratic, peaceful, and sustainable world. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to questions of social change, moral progress, and ecological sustainability, the Critical Animal Studies and Theory series connects with disciplines such as feminism, globalization, economics, science, history, education, critical race theory, environmental studies, media studies, ecopedagogy, art, literature, disability, gender, political science, sociology, religion, anthropology, philosophy, and cultural studies. In keeping with the principles of Critical Animals Studies, the series encourages progressive and committed scholarship and views exploitation of nonhuman animals, such as animal research and studies, as interrelated with other oppressions such as class, gender, and racism. Against apolitical scholarship, the series encourages engaged critical praxis, promotes liberation of all animals and challenges all systems of domination.

Titles in Series

Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies edited by Amber E. George

Screening the Nonhuman: Representations of Animal Others in the Media edited by Amber E. George and J.L. Schatz

Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies: The Heroic Beasts of Total Liberation edited by J.L. Schatz and Sean Parson.

Critical Animal Studies and Social Justice

Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total Liberation

Edited by

Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George
Forewords by Tyler Lang and Jordan Halliday

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Names: Nocella, Anthony J., editor. | George, Amber E., editor. | Halliday, Jordan, 1987- writer of foreword. | Lang, Tyler, writer of foreword.

Title: Critical animal studies and social justice : critical theory, dismantling speciesism, and total liberation / edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George ; foreword by Jordan Halliday and Tyler Lang.

Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] | Series: Critical animal studies and theory | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021031389 (print) | LCCN 2021031390 (ebook) | ISBN 9781793635228 (cloth) | ISBN 9781793635242 (paper) | ISBN 9781793635235 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Animal rights. | Animal welfare. | Animal welfare in literature. | Speciesism.

Classification: LCC HV4708 .C699 2021 (print) | LCC HV4708 (ebook) | DDC 179/.3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021031389

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021031390

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

This book is dedicated to all those important and loved people that were murdered at the hands of police such as George Floyd, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura Rosser, Stephon Clark, Botham Jean, Philandro Castille, Alton Sterling, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Michelle Cusseaux, Tanisha Fonville, Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, Gabriella Nevarez, Tanisha Anderson, and Terrance Franklin to just name a few.

Contents

Tyler Lang

Jordan Halliday

Anthony J. Nocella II and Amber E. George

Samantha Orsulak

Will Boisseau

Nathan Poirier