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793105423. An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory is a 2010 textbook by the British political theorist Alasdair Cochrane. It is the first book in the publisher Palgrave Macmillan 's Animal Ethics Series, edited by Andrew Linzey and Priscilla Cohn. Cochrane's book examines five schools of political theory — utilitarianism, liberalism ...
ISBN. 978-1-137-43461-6. Political Animals and Animal Politics is a 2014 edited collection published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by the green political theorists Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg. The work addresses the emergence of academic animal ethics informed by political philosophy as opposed to moral philosophy.
The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement that advocates an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.
Biopolitics is a concept popularized by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century. [ 1] At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental power operates through the management and regulation of a population's bodies and lives. This interdisciplinary field scrutinizes the mechanisms through which political authorities and ...
Political ideologies have two dimensions: (1) goals: how society should be organized; and (2) methods: the most appropriate way to achieve this goal. An ideology is a collection of ideas. Typically, each ideology contains certain ideas on what it considers to be the best form of government (e.g. autocracy or democracy ) and the best economic ...
Political ontology is an approach within anthropology to understand the process of how practices, entities (human and non-human), and concepts come into being or are enacted. [1] The field takes as its focus 'conflicts involving different assumptions about 'what exists,'" [1] over metaphysical entities, how to understand ecosystems and ...
Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. [ 1][ 2] It began taking shape in the western world in the 1970s; since then green parties have developed and established ...
In the philosophical subdiscipline of ontology, animalism is a theory of personal identity that asserts that humans are animals. [ 1] The concept of animalism is advocated by philosophers Eric T. Olson, Peter van Inwagen, Paul Snowdon, Stephan Blatti, David Hershenov and David Wiggins. [ 2][page needed] The view stands in contrast to positions ...