Animals in the Anthropocene

Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures

Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

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Sydney University Press
16 June 2015

Animals & society; Zoology & animal sciences; Wildlife: general interest

Series: Animal Politics

Much of the discussion on the Anthropocene has centred upon anthropogenic global warming and climate change, and the urgency of political and social responses to this problem. Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures shows that assessing the effects of human activity on the planet requires more than just the quantification of ecological impacts towards the categorisation of geological eras. It requires recognising and evaluating a wide range of territories and terrains, full of non-human agents and interests and meanings, exposed to the profound forces of change that give their name to the Anthropocene.

It is from the perspective of ‘the animal question’ – asking how best to think and live with animals – that Animals in the Anthropocene seeks to interrogate the Anthropocene as a concept, discourse and state of affairs. The term Anthropocene is a useful device for drawing attention to the devastations wreaked by anthropocentrism and advancing a relational model for human and non-human life. The effects on animals of human political and economic systems continue to expand and intensify, in numerous domains and in ways that not only cause suffering and loss but that also produce new forms of life and alter the very nature of species. As anthropogenic change affects the more-than-human world in innumerable ways, we must accept responsibility for the damage we have caused and the debt we owe to non-human species.

Edited by: Human Animal Research Network Editorial Collective, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781743324394
ISBN 10: 1743324391
Series: Animal Politics
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 16 June 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The paradox of self-reference: sociological reflections on agency and intervention in the Anthropocene by Florence Chiew 2. Anthropocene: the enigma of ‘the geomorphic fold’ by Ben Dibley 3. Cycle of anthropocenic interdependencies on the island of Cyprus by Agata Mrva-Montoya 4. Ecosystem and landscape: strategies for the Anthropocene by Adrian Franklin 5. The matter of death: posthumous wildlife art in the Anthropocene by Vanessa Barbay 6. A game of horseshoes for the Anthropocene: the matter of externalities of cruelty to the horseracing industry by Madeleine Boyd 7. Painfully, from the first-person singular to first-person plural: the role of feminism in the study of the Anthropocene by Daniel Kirjner 8. We have never been meat (but we could be) by Simone J. Dennis and Alison M.Witchard 9. Multispecies publics in the Anthropocene: from symbolic exchange to material-discursive intra-action by Gwendolyn Blue 10. Apiculture in the Anthropocene: between posthumanism and critical animal studies by Richie Nimmo 11. The welfare episteme: street dog biopolitics in the Anthropocene by Krithika Srinivasan 12. Wild elephants as actors in the Anthropocene by Michael Hathaway Epilogue: New World Order – nature in the Anthropocene by Hayden Fowler About the contributors Index

The Human Animal Research Network (HARN) at the University of Sydney was formed in 2011. It is a cross-faculty research group, comprising members from the humanities, natural sciences, public health, social sciences and veterinary medicine, that focuses on studying the multifaceted and multidimensional relationships between humans and non-human animals. The HARN Editorial Collective includes Madeleine Boyd, Matthew Chrulew, Chris Degeling, Agata Mrva-Montoya, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Nikki Savvides and Dinesh Wadiwel.

Reviews for Animals in the Anthropocene: Critical Perspectives on Non-Human Futures

‘HARN’s Animals in the Anthropocene proves to be a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies. It is wide-ranging in scope and in methodology, presenting a diverse set of frameworks through which we might begin to answer questions of multispecies responsibility and justice.’ -- Christopher Dolle * Humanimalia *