Critical Social Thought 349MS - Multi-Species Justice

Spring
2018
01
4.00
Christian Gundermann
TH 01:15PM-04:05PM
Mount Holyoke College
103094
Shattuck Hall 318
cgunderm@mtholyoke.edu
103093,103094
How can we change animal exploitation and re-situate the human more equitably with other species? Through animal rights? Justice? Abolition? Dismantle human exceptionalism? Animal emancipation? Companionship? Co-existence? Stewardship? What are the uses and limits of the discourses from which critical animal studies borrows conceptually, for example: antiracism, feminism, disability studies, nationalism, transformative justice, and so on. We will explore different scenarios of human-nonhuman entanglements, such as training, rescue, the animal industrial complex, the politics of extinction, hunting, infection, predation, breeding/reproduction and others.
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