Paperback : HK$228.00
Education for Total Liberation is a collection of essays from leaders in the field of critical animal pedagogy (CAP). CAP emerges from activist educators teaching critical animal studies and is rooted in critical theory as well as the animal advocacy movement. Critical animal studies (CAS) argues for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our relationships with nonhuman animals. CAS challenges two specific fields of theory: (1) animal studies, rooted in vivisection and testing on animals in the hard sciences and (2) human-animal studies, which reinforces a socially constructed binary between humans and animals and adopts abstract theoretical approaches. In contrast, CAS takes a progressive and committed approach to scholarship and sees the exploitation of nonhuman animals as interrelated with oppression of humans based on class, gender, race, ability, sexuality, age, and citizenship. CAS promotes the liberation of all animals and challenges all systems of domination. Education for Total Liberation is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate level readers (and beyond) who wish to learn from examples of radical pedagogical projects shaped by CAS and critical pedagogy.
Contributing to this collection are Anne C. Bell, Anita de Melo, Carolyn Drew, Amber E. George, Karin Gunnarsson Dinker, Sinem Ketenci, John Lupinacci, Anthony J. Nocella II, Sean Parson, Helena Pedersen, Ian Purdy, Constance L. Russell, J.L. Schatz, Meneka Repka, William E. Shanahan III, and Richard J, White.
Show moreEducation for Total Liberation is a collection of essays from leaders in the field of critical animal pedagogy (CAP). CAP emerges from activist educators teaching critical animal studies and is rooted in critical theory as well as the animal advocacy movement. Critical animal studies (CAS) argues for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our relationships with nonhuman animals. CAS challenges two specific fields of theory: (1) animal studies, rooted in vivisection and testing on animals in the hard sciences and (2) human-animal studies, which reinforces a socially constructed binary between humans and animals and adopts abstract theoretical approaches. In contrast, CAS takes a progressive and committed approach to scholarship and sees the exploitation of nonhuman animals as interrelated with oppression of humans based on class, gender, race, ability, sexuality, age, and citizenship. CAS promotes the liberation of all animals and challenges all systems of domination. Education for Total Liberation is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate level readers (and beyond) who wish to learn from examples of radical pedagogical projects shaped by CAS and critical pedagogy.
Contributing to this collection are Anne C. Bell, Anita de Melo, Carolyn Drew, Amber E. George, Karin Gunnarsson Dinker, Sinem Ketenci, John Lupinacci, Anthony J. Nocella II, Sean Parson, Helena Pedersen, Ian Purdy, Constance L. Russell, J.L. Schatz, Meneka Repka, William E. Shanahan III, and Richard J, White.
Show moreAcknowledgments – Carolyn Drew, Amber E. George, Sinem Ketenci, John Lupinacci, Anthony J. Nocella II, Ian Purdy, and J.L. Schatz: Introduction: Examining the Nexus: Critical Animal Studies and Critical Pedagogy – Anthony J. Nocella II: Unmasking the Animal Liberation Front Using Critical Pedagogy: Seeing the ALF for Who They Really Are – Anne C. Bell and Constance L. Russell: Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn – Karin Gunnarsson Dinker and Helena Pedersen: Critical Animal Pedagogy: Explorations Toward Reflective Practice – Sean Parson: Our Heroes Need to Wear Ski-Masks: The Animal Man and the Animal Liberationist Hero in Comics – John Lupinacci: Teaching to End Human Supremacy↔Learning to Recognize Equity in All Species – Meneka Repka: Intersecting Oppressions: The Animal Industrial Complex and the Educational Industrial Complex – Richard J. White: "We are one lesson": Some Reflections on Teaching Critical Animal Geographies Within the University – Anita de Melo: Teaching the Animal in Foreign Languages: An Ecopedagogical Approach – J.L. Schatz: Activist Education for Animal Ethics: The Imperative of Intervention in Education on the Non/Human – Amber E. George: Building Alliances for Nonhuman Animals Using Critical Social Justice Dialogue – William E. Shanahan III: Decolonizing Critical Classrooms, Decentering Animal Pedagogies – Contributors – Index.
The editors and contributing authors in this book are activist educators from around the globe and represent diverse critical perspectives contributing to Critical Animal Studies and the emerging and connected Critical Animal Pedagogies.
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Salt Lake Community College.
Carolyn Drew holds a M.Ed. in adult education and is Director of Regions of the Institute of Critical Animal Studies.
Amber E. George, Ph.D., is Executive Director of Finance of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.
Sinem Ketenci, MSW, is a social worker and a co-founder of the vegan clubs at Ryerson and Canterbury Universities.
John Lupinacci, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Washington State University.
Ian Purdy is a co-organizer of the open lecture series Animal Rights Academy at the University of Toronto.
J.L. Schatz is Lecturer in English and Feminist Evolutionary Theory at Binghamton University.
"A truly powerful intersectional book dedicated to social justice
education. This anthology is international and dedicated to
collaborative, transformative, critical, and inclusive pedagogy.
Read this book if you are interested in advancing the pedagogical
realm."
Moneka Stevens, Save the Kids
“At the intersections of education and action, this important
collection illuminates the importance of praxis to critical
studies, offering readers a variety of entry points into the
increasingly important realm of critical animal studies for
liberation.”
Erik Juergensmeyer, editor of «Green Theory and Praxis Journal»
“«Education for Total Liberation» is a must-read for activists,
students and scholars. Finally, an entire book on critical animal
pedagogy! This important text calls for a radicalising of what the
field of critical animal pedagogy stands for and the different
perspectives that exist across the field in both theory and
practice. What an exciting book!”
Lara Drew, member of the Executive Board of Directors of the
Institute for Critical Animal Studies
"Primary education and the academy are powerful ideological agents
that justify and normalize the entangled oppression of humans and
other animals. This important CAS volume of powerful,
transformative strategies and techniques should be required reading
for all educators and justice advocates."
David Nibert, Wittenberg University
"«Education for Total Liberation» is timely, provocative, engaging,
and informative. The contributors ask us to rethink our relation to
ourselves, the natural environment, nonhuman animals, systems of
domination, and education. This is a wonderful book and a
must-read!"
Jason Del Gandio, co-editor of «Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros
Effect and Global Revolution»
“As it becomes increasingly obvious that our planet is being
murdered by antiquated ideologies and beliefs (e.g., capitalism,
speciesism, and delusions of human supremacism), it is essential
that these ideologies and beliefs are deconstructed with sound
theory and reconstituted with alternative strategies of action.
This book is an excellent mix of both theory and action as it
pertains to teaching the pedagogy of critical animal studies.”
Mark Seis, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
