The Capitalist Commodification of Animals

This volume offers analysis regarding the historical transformations in the material conditions and ideological conceptions of nonhuman animals, alienated speciesism, the ecological crisis that is undermining the conditions of life for all species, and the capitalist commodification of animals that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clark, Brett
Otros Autores: Wilson, Tamar Diana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
Colección:Research in Political Economy Ser.
Temas:
Animal rights.
Animal welfare.
Animal Rights
Animaux > Droits.
Animals & society.
Nature, Animal Rights.
Animal rights
Animal welfare
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • THE CAPITALIST COMMODIFICATION OF ANIMALS
  • RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
  • EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
  • THE CAPITALIST COMMODIFICATION OF ANIMALS
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
  • ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • The Capitalist Commodification of Animals: A Brief Introduction
  • References
  • I Theoretical Approaches to the Commodification of Animals
  • It's Not Humans, It's Animal Capital!
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • The Human-Animal Abstraction Is Just Wrong
  • Animal Capital?
  • Animal Capital! A Social Relational Value Theory Approach
  • Socialism of a New Type, or: The End of Animal Capital
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Animals and Nature: The Co-modification of the Sentient Biosphere
  • Abstract
  • Historical and Epistemological Roots of the Commodication of Nature
  • René Descartes and the Objectification of Nature and Nonhuman Animals
  • Speciesism, Sentience, and Consciousness in Nonhuman Animals
  • Co-modifying Nonhuman Animals and Ecosystems
  • Changing This Scenario through Education
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • References
  • Abstract Life, Abstract Labor, Abstract Mind
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Abstract Labor and Abstract Mind
  • The Subsumption of Science by Capital
  • Artificial Life on a Dead Planet: The Post-fordist Bioeconomy as Disaster Capitalism
  • The Indifference of Capital and the Real Subsumption of Life
  • Abstract Life: Animals as "Functional Biomachines"
  • The Ecology of the Nonliving: Robotic Bees and Artificial Trees
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Mission Impossible? Reflections on Objectification and Instrumentalization of Animals in the Economy
  • Abstract
  • Introduction and Background
  • A Three-level Model for Animal Instrumentalization in the Economy
  • Level 1: Self-instrumentalization and Consented Instrumentalization
  • Level 2: Permitted Instrumentalization with Economic Purpose
  • Level 3: Commodification, Mass Commodification, Objectification, and Exploitation
  • Paradigm Shift: A Theoretical Background for Instrumentalization
  • Implementing Animal Welfare in Learning and Embedded Markets
  • Animal Welfare as Social Cost
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • II Case Studies of the Commodification of Animals
  • The Commodification of Living Beings in the Fur Trade: The Intersection of Cheap Raw Materials and Cheap Labor
  • Abstract
  • "Cheap Raw Materials"
  • "Cheap Labor"
  • Contemporary Commodification of Fur-bearing Animals
  • "Cheap Nature": In the Way of a Conclusion
  • References
  • Capitalism Has Granted Wolves a Temporary Reprieve from Extinction
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Wolves and People before Private Land and Livestock
  • The Creation of Livestock and Private Landowners
  • The Creation of Sport Hunters in the United States
  • Challenges to Private Property Rights, Anthropocentrism, and the Creation of an Urban-based Environmentally Conscious Class
  • Increasing Populations of Wolves
  • Conclusion
  • References

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