Law and the question of the animal : a critical jurisprudence

Law and the question of the animal : a critical jurisprudence / edited by Yoriko Otomo and Ed Mussawir.

This book addresses the problem of 'animal life' in terms that go beyond the usual extension of liberal rights to animals. The discourse of animal rights is one that increasingly occupies the political, ethical and intellectual terrain of modern society. But, although the question of the s...

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Other Authors: Otomo, Yoriko, Mussawir, Edward
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Law, justice and ecology.
Subjects:
Animal rights > Philosophy.
Animal welfare > Law and legislation.
Animal rights > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animals > Law and legislation.
LAW > Health.
Animal rights > Moral and ethical aspects
Animal rights > Philosophy
Animal welfare > Law and legislation
Animals > Law and legislation
Law, Politics & Government.
Law, General & Comparative.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Law and the Question of the Animal: A critical jurisprudence; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Series editor's preface; Chapter 1 Law's animal; Chapter 2 The animal protagonist: Representing 'the animal' in law and cinema; Chapter 3 Witness demeanour as real evidence: Mechanistic philosophy of bodies without minds; Chapter 4 Inventing animals; Chapter 5 Chimpanzees in court: What difference does it make?; Chapter 6 The jurisprudential meaning of the animal: A critique of the subject of rights in the laws of scienter and negligence.
  • Chapter 7 Dressing the sow and the legal subjectivation of the non-human animalChapter 8 Whipping to win: Measured violence, delegated sovereignty and the privatised domination of non-human life; Chapter 9 Law in the marketplace; Chapter 10 The normativity of an animal atmosphere; Chapter 11 Species, scarcity and the secular state; References; Index.

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