The Human and the Meat

Animal Domination in Capitalist Societies
Auflage - Neueauflage
ISBN: 978-3-8376-7957-1
Verlag: Transcript Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 364 g

Reihe: Human-Animal Studies

1. Why did you choose this topic?

The choice of this topic stems from a growing discomfort I felt, as a scholar in Critical Animal Studies and part of leftist and intersectional movements, in an environment marked by mutual distrust and division. I wanted to understand why animal liberation struggles often fail, and how a deeper critique of capitalist society could help rebuild effective alliances.

2. What new perspectives does your book offer?

The book develops a materialist and intersectional framework to understand how animal domination is structurally embedded in capitalist societies. Going beyond moral arguments, it bridges Critical Animal Studies, Marxism, and intersectionality to overcome reductionist views and rethink speciesism as a key element in the production and reproduction of our social life.

3. What makes your topic relevant for current research debates?

Climate change, pandemics, and food crises have exposed the urgency of rethinking human-animal relations, yet mainstream and even critical theories often ignore or treat them anthropocentrically. This book brings animals back into focus by linking their domination to the structures of capitalist society, expanding debates on justice, ecology, and social change.

4. Choose one person you would like to discuss your book with!

I would love to discuss my book with a key figure from each of the fields it engages with: Dinesh Wadiwel, for Critical Animal Studies; Michael Heinrich, from the Neue Marx-Lektüre tradition; and Judith Butler, for queer-feminist theory. Among other things, I would especially like to discuss with them the concept of the anthropological form I introduce.

5. Your book summary in one sentence:

Critters of the world, unite!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stefanoni, Chiara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikveranstaltungen und -organisationen, Aufführungspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Über Autor(innen)

Stefanoni, Chiara
Chiara Stefanoni, born in 1992, works as a visiting researcher and lecturer in philosophy at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Her research in the field of Critical Animal Studies draws from continental political philosophy, particularly in the Marxist tradition, and incorporates queer-feminist perspectives to examine socio-political aspects of human-animal relations and their environments. She completed her doctorate in Transcultural Studies in Humanities at the University of Bergamo and was a predoctoral visiting scholar at the Center for Animal Ethics at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.