1st Edition

Disability and Animality Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

300 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The fields of Critical Disability Studies and Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of more-than-human animals and disabled humans are interconnected. Composed of thirteen chapters by an international team... Read more

Foreword by Lori Gruen

Introduction by Chloë Taylor, Stephanie Jenkins, and Kelly Struthers Montford

Part I: Intersections of Ableism and Speciesism

1. Animal Crips
Sunaura Taylor

2. Productive Bodies: How Neoliberalism Makes and Unmakes Disability in Human and Non-human Animals
Kelly Somers and Karen Soldatic

3. Zoos, Circuses and Freak Shows: A Cross-Movement Analysis
Sammy Jo Johnson

4. Disability and the Ahuman: A Story about a Dog, a Duck, and the Woman who Cared for Them
Agnes Trzak

Part II: Thinking Animality and Disability together in Political and Moral Theory

5. Against Performance Criteria
Stephanie Jenkins

6. Service Dogs: Between Animal Studies and Disability Studies
Kelly Oliver

7. Veganism as Universal Design: Accommodation and Inclusion in Law and Social Justice Praxis
Chloë Taylor and Kelly Struthers Montford

Part III: Neurodiversity and Critical Animal Studies

8. Lost in Translation: Temple Grandin, Humane Meat, and The Myth of Consent
Vasile Stanescu and Debs Stanescu

9. Disrupting Temple Grandin: Resisting a ‘Humane’ Face for Autistic and Animal Oppression
Vittoria Lion

10. Cripping Mad Cow Disease
Hallie Abelman

Part IV: Melancholy, Madness, and Misfits

11. Vegan Madness: Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
Chloë Taylor

12. ‘There, there’: Disability, Animality, and the Allegory of Elizabeth Costello
A. Marie Houser

13. Of Gimps, Gastropods and Grief: Feminist New Materialist Reflections on Elizabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Chloë Taylor

Biography

Stephanie Jenkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.



Kelly Struthers Montford is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.



Chloë Taylor is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta.