Vegetarianism and science fiction : a history of utopian animal ethics / Joshua Bulleid.
Bulleid, Joshua, author.
2023
PN3433.6
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Title
Vegetarianism and science fiction : a history of utopian animal ethics / Joshua Bulleid.
Author
Bulleid, Joshua, author.
ISBN
9783031383472 (electronic bk.)
3031383478 (electronic bk.)
303138346X
9783031383465
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-38347-2 doi
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PN3433.6
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.3/8762
Summary
This is an important book on an important topic. From Mary Shelley through to Octavia Butler, Anglophone science fiction has repeatedly speculated about vegetarian variants of utopian and dystopian futures. Yet, the topic is only rarely and often very inadequately addressed in the relevant secondary literature. Bulleids Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics more than fills the gap. It will be a must for all serious scholars of the genre. Andrew Milner, co-author of Science Fiction and Climate Change: A Sociological Approach. To imagine alternative worlds allows a fiction writer to re-imagine our relationships with the other animals. Numerous novels envision an end to our tawdry and selfish human-centered attitudes. How marvelous that Joshua Bulleid examines, with care and alertness, this creative refashioning of ethical commitments. Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy. Author Joshua Bulleid explores how the genres engagements have been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental philosophy from the early-nineteenth century to the present day, through an examination of the works of major science fiction authors, including Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Marge Piercy, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their evolving social contexts. Joshua Bulleid is an independent early career researcher from Melbourne, Australia. His articles on vegetarianism and animal ethics have appeared in Science Fiction Studies and Foundation, as well as the Palgrave Macmillan collection Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction (2020) and The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies (2022). He also hosts the Terry Pratchett podcast Unseen Academicals.
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Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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VEGETARIANISM AND SCIENCE FICTION.
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1 The Speculative Politics of Meat: Utopia, Carnism, and Critical Animal Studies
Utopia and Science Fiction
Carnism and Speciesism
Vegetarianism and Veganism
Critical Animal Studies
Food Studies and Science Fiction
Chapter Breakdown
References
2 Feed My Frankenstein: Mary Shelleys Romantic Vegetarian Precedent
Percy Shelleys Vegetarian Vindication
Frankenstein
Frankensteins Fall
Child of Nature
The Creatures Fall
Children of Cain
Ecocritical Inclinations
The Last Man and Others
Conclusion
References
3 You Are What You Eat: Bestiality and Other Carnal Cravings in the Works of H. G. Wells
Darwinism
The Time Machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The War of the Worlds
Later Scientific Romances and Mainstream Novels
Modern Utopias
Conclusion
References
4 My God, Its Full of Starch! Arthur C. Clarke, Alternative Meat, and the Hunting Hypothesis
Alternative Meat and the Dystopian Tradition
Space Exploration and Environmental Sustainability
Ethical Endorsements and Buddhist Influences
Space Odyssey Series and the Hunting Hypothesis
Conclusion
References
5 Should Androids Eat Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick, Interspecies Empathy, and Animal Liberation
Early Empathetic Experiences
Early Short Stories and Novels
Dr Bloodmoney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Blade Runner
Later Theological Turn
Conclusion
References
6 The Critical Carnist Shift: Marge Piercy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Octavia E. Butler and the Critical Utopian Period
The Critical Utopian Canon
Piercys Primitivist and Post-Catastrophic Carnisms
Coming Home to Carnism in Le Guin
Callenbachs Carnist Ecotopia(s)
Octavia E. Butler
Patternist
Xenogenesis
Later Parables
Conclusion
References
7 Wheres the Beef? Kim Stanley Robinsons Carnist Climate Change Catastrophes
Future Primitive
Three Californias
Mars Trilogy and Other Space Colonisation Novels
Science in the Capital
Climate Policy
Buddhism
Nineteenth-Century Influences
Nonhuman Subjectivity
(Erasure of) Nonhuman Sympathy
The Ministry for the Future
Conclusion
References
8 That Way Maddness Lies: Returning to Carnism in Margaret Atwoods Science Fiction
Survivalism and Realist Fiction
The Handmaids Tales
The Blind Assassin and Later Realist Fiction
The MaddAddam Trilogy
Children of Nature
Inner Animality
Alternative Meats
Sexual Politics
Interspecies Empathy and Animal Activism
Neocarnist Environmentalism
Conclusion
References
9 The Last Word in Gastronomy? Veganism, Ecocriticism, Pandemic Science Fiction and the Future
Veganism
Climate Fiction and Ecocriticism
Pandemic Science Fiction
Looking Forward
References.

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