The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies tackles the infamous "animal question": how can humans rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals? Over the course of five sections and thirty chapters, the contributors investigate issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.

• Preface


• List of Contributors


• Introduction, Linda Kalof


• Part I. Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy


• 1. Animal Rights, Gary Francione and Anna Charlton


• 2. Animals in Political Theory, Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka


• 3. Animals as Living Property, David Favre


• 4. The Human-Animal Bond, James Serpell


• 5. Animal Sheltering, Leslie Irvine


• 6. Roaming Dogs, Arnold Arluke and Kate Atema


• 7. Misothery: Contempt for Animals and Nature, Its Origins, Purposes, and Repercussions, James B. Mason


• 8. Continental Approaches to Animals and Animality, Ralph Acampora


• 9. Animals as Legal Subjects, Paul Waldau


• 10. The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies, Carol Gigliotti


• 11. Interspecies Dialogue and Animal Ethics: The Feminist Care Perspective, Josephine Donovan


• Part II. Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking


• 12. Cetacean Cognition, Lori Marino


• 13. History and Animal Agencies, Chris Pearson


• 14. What Was It Like to Be a Cow? History and Animal Studies, Erica Fudge


• 15. Animals as Sentient Commodities, Rhoda Wilkie


• 16. Animal Work, Jocelyne Porcher


• 17. Animals as Reflexive Thinkers: The Aponoian Paradigm, Mark Rowlands and Susana Monsó


• Part III. Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport


• 18. The Ethics of Animal Research - Theory and Practice, Bernard Rollin


• 19. The Ethics of Food Animal Production, Paul Thompson


• 20. Animals as Scientific Objects, Mike Michael


• 21. The Problem with Zoos, Randy Malamud


• 22. Wolf Hunting and the Ethics of Predator Control, John Vucetich and Michael P. Nelson


• Part IV. Animals in Cultural Representations


• 23. Practice and Ethics of the Use of Animals in Contemporary Art, Joe Zammit-Lucia


• 24. Animals in Folklore, Boria Sax


• Part V. Animals in Ecosystems


• 25. Archaeozoology, Juliet Clutton-Brock


• 26. Animals and Ecological Science, Anita Guerrini


• 27. Staging Privilege, Proximity, and "Extreme Animal Tourism," Jane Desmond


• 28. Commensal Species, Terry O'Connor


• 29. Lively Cities: People, Animals, and Urban Ecosystems, Marcus Owens and Jennifer Wolch


• 30. Animals in Religion, Stephen R. L. Clark


• Index

Linda Kalof is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Animal Studies Program at Michigan State University.