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Title
Murdering animals : writings on theriocide, homicide and nonspeciesist criminology / Piers Beirne ; with Ian O'Donnell and Janine Janssen.
ISBN
9781137574688 (electronic book)
1137574682 (electronic book)
9781137574671
1137574674
Published
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HV4708
Dewey Decimal Classification
179/.3
Summary
Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and “theriocide” (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously. Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable animals in early modern Europe; images of hunters put on trial by their prey in the upside-down world of the Dutch Golden Age; the artist William Hogarth’s patriotic depictions of animals in 18th Century London; and the playwright J.M. Synge’s representation of parricide in fin de siècle Ireland. Combining insights from intellectual history, the history of the fine and performing arts, and what is known about today’s invisibilised sites of animal killing, Murdering Animals inevitably asks: should theriocide be considered murder? With its strong multi- and interdisciplinary approach, this work of collaboration will appeal to scholars of social and species justice in animal studies, criminology, sociology and law.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 19, 2018).
Series
Palgrave studies in green criminology.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9781137574671
Chapter 1. Introduction: Rights for Whom?
Chapter 2. Theriocide and Homicide
Chapter 3. Hunting Worlds Turned Upside Down: Paulus Potter’s Life of a Hunter
Chapter 4. On the Geohistory of Justiciable Animals: Was Britain a Deviant Case?
Chapter 5. Hogarth’s Patriotic Animals: Bulldogs, Beef, Brittania!
Chapter 6. Gallous Stories or Dirty Deeds? Representing Parricide in J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World Playboy of the Western World
Chapter 7. Is Theriocide Murder?
