1st Edition
Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal
Notes on contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Zoei Sutton and Josephine Browne
Part I: Animals in everyday life
1 The chicken city: Urban interspecies sociabilities
Catherine Oliver
2 Fairweather friends? Rethinking multispecies companionship in the new normal
Zoei Sutton
3 Power, politics and representation in research with (other) animals in the ‘new normal’
Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser
Part II: Activism
4 (Not so) hidden barriers to a vegan-inclusive norm: The struggle against speciesism for compassionate children who could change the world
Lynda M. Korimboccus
5 Incorporating a structural approach into animal advocacy
Nick Pendergrast
6 Selling veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan representation in British newspapers in 2020
Corey Wrenn
Part III: Species(ist) relations
7 Food animals as an economic class: Animals as commodities under capitalism
Dinesh Wadiwel
8 Resisting Zoopolis: bordering species relations as a response to COVID-19
Erika Cudworth
9 That killing joke isn’t funny anymore: Rebranding speciesism after Brexit
Matthew Cole
10 Dystopian or utopian fiction? The sociological imagination and the representation of pandemic futures in The Animals in That Country
Josephine Browne
Index
Biography
Josephine Browne is a sociologist who has most recently held positions at Griffith and Southern Cross Universities, where she brings critical approaches to animal studies and gender in her teaching and research.
Zoei Sutton is a lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University pursuing critical, non-human animal-centric research.
"What a timely and welcome book in the "Multispecies Encounters" series! This edited collection emerged from a 2020 research panel for The Australian Sociological Association with support from the International Association for Vegan Sociologists. It is very capably edited by Browne and Sutton. The book's overarching theme is how the crises that constitute our "new normal"―e.g., zoonoses such as COVID-19 and monkeypox, and climate change―are shaped by how badly humans relate to other animals and to the natural environment. Following the editors' introduction, the book's 10 chapters are structured in three parts. Part 1 considers animals in everyday life, part 2 treats activism, and part 3 focuses on "species(ist)" relations. The book brings together a distinguished group of sociologists and social scientists from Australia and the UK who contribute chapters that identify current human-animal entanglements and point the way toward a multispecies flourishing that is less oppressive, less bad, and less human-centric." - P. Beirne, CHOICE
