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  • Impersonating Animals

    Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law

    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 ... Read more

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  • Communicating in the Anthropocene

    Intimate Relations

    Series series Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
    The purpose of Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations is to tell a different story about the world. Humans, especially those raised in Western traditions, have long told stories about themselves as individual protagonists who act with varying degrees of free will against a background of mute supporting characters and inert landscapes. Humans can be either saviors or destroyers, but ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

    Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
    Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a ... Read more

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  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants

    Seen but Not Heard

    As societies grapple with an unprecedented refugee and migration crisis, child refugees and migrants—who constitute a particularly vulnerable immigrant category—have been surprisingly overlooked in immigration scholarship. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Migrants: Seen but Not Heard addresses this lapse by presenting analyses of child refugees and migrants. This comprehensive overview ... Read more

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    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Read more

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  • Jurgen Habermas and Deliberative Democracy

    Understanding Deliberative Democracy, #3

    Series Book 3 - Understanding Deliberative Democracy
    Jurgen Habermas is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This detailed, article length guide examines his theory of deliberative democracy and covers many of the central concepts such as communicative reason, communicative power, and the ideal speech community. ... Read more

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  • Animals as Persons

    Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation

    A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionist movement. In this collection, Francione advances the most radical theory of animal rights to date. ... Read more

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  • Animal Rights Without Liberation

    Applied Ethics and Human Obligations

    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other proponents of animal rights, Cochrane claims that because most sentient animals are not autonomous ... Read more

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  • Politics of Urbanism

    Seeing Like a City

    Series series Interventions
    To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order.Locally and globally, the city exists by virtue of complicated patterns of government and self ... Read more

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  • Rawls Explained

    From Fairness to Utopia

    by Paul Voice ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    This book introduces the reader to the political theories of the American philosopher John Rawls. Rawls was arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. Barely a word of political philosophy is written today that is not indebted in some way, either directly or indirectly, to the philosophical paradigm that Rawls bequeathed. On his death at aged 81 in 2002 his ... Read more

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  • Animal Studies

    An Introduction

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    Animal studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that incorporates scholarship from public policy, sociology, religion, philosophy, and many other areas. In essence, it seeks to understand how humans study and conceive of other-than-human animals, and how these conceptions have changed over time, across cultures, and across different ways of thinking. This interdisciplinary introduction to the ... Read more

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  • Indigeneity and Political Theory

    Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political

    by Karena Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Issues in Contemporary Political Theory
    Indigeneity and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges totraditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past twodecades. Karena Shaw is especially concerned with practices of sovereigntyas they are embedded in and shape Indigenous politics, and responses toIndigenous politics.Drawing on theories of post-coloniality, feminism, globalization, andinternational ... Read more

    $73.99 USD