The capitalist commodification of animals

While animal suffering and abuse have taken place throughout history, the alienation of humanity from nature caused by the development of capitalism - by the logic of capital and its system of generalized commodity production - accelerated and increased the depredations in scope and scale. The capit...

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Other Authors Clark, Brett (Editor), Wilson, Tamar Diana (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
SeriesResearch in political economy ; v. 35.
Subjects
Animal rights.
Animal welfare.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839826825
9781839826801
DOI10.1108/s0161-7230202135
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • The capitalist commodification of animals: a brief introduction
  • Part I Theoretical approaches to the commodification of animals
  • It's not humans, it's animal capital!
  • Animals and nature: the co-modification of the sentient biosphere
  • Abstract life, abstract labor, abstract mind
  • Mission impossible? Reflections on objectification and instrumentalization of animals in the economy
  • Part II Case studies of the commodification of animals
  • The commodification of living beings in the fur trade: the intersection of cheap raw materials and cheap labor
  • Capitalism has granted wolves a temporary reprieve from extinction
  • The landowners' ethic: Aldo Leopold, game management, and private property
  • Part III Argentina's working class
  • The dynamics of violence and labor conflict in Villa Constitución, Argentina, 19731975
  • Index.

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