CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES

“Eco-Ability the Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”

This special edition of JCAS will focus on intersections amongst animal liberation issues, environmentalism, ecology, dis-ability studies, and the newly forming theory, field, and movement of eco-ability. This edition, rooted in social justice, will explore these intersections of domination and exploitation to expose and dismantle interconnected oppressions. Contributors are encouraged to read and include information from Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation: The Rise of Eco-Ability (Nocella, Duncan, Bentley, Eds.; forthcoming from Peter Lang, Fall 2012) within their final submissions. Areas for this special edition may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Intersections between dis-ability and animal rights/liberation/advocacy
• Critical personal narratives from dis-ability voices on animal advocacy and environmental protection
• A focus on racial justice, economic justice, environmental justice, disability rights, and animal advocacy
• Connections between environmental justice and dis-ability rights
• Critical perspectives on the use of nonhuman animals as service providers to humans with dis-abilities
• Examinations around interdependence of all life
• A radical defense of difference and critique of normalcy
• Critical perspectives on GMOs and other gene manipulation processes
• A dis-ability, environmental, and animal advocacy critique on science and capitalism
• Interdisciplinary explorations of social movement theories, alliance politics, bridge building, and solidarity amongst animal, Earth, and dis-ability liberation movements
• An abolitionist perspective of prisons, institutions, and industries from an intersectional perspective of dis-ability, Earth, and nonhuman animal liberation
• Experiences of nonhuman animals with dis-abilities
• Inclusion within social movements of people with dis-abilities
• Critical analysis of the “animalization” of people of color and people with disabilities
• Arguments for including the ostensibly inert/insentient environment into broader issues of liberation

Special Issue for
Journal for Critical Animal Studies

Edited By:

Judy K. C. Bentley, Ph.D.
SUNY Cortland, New York
Judy.Bentley@cortland.edu

Kim Socha, Ph.D.

Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN

kimberly.socha@normandale.edu

&

Deanna Adams
Syracuse University, New York
dis.studies@gmail.com

“The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal devoted to developing the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS)” (JCAS, website). “Critical Animal Studies (CAS) is the academic field of study dedicated to the abolition of animal and ecological exploitation, oppression, and domination. CAS is grounded in a broad, global, emancipatory and inclusionary movement for total liberation and freedom” (ICAS, website).

All submissions are due by January 1, 2012. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Edition will be published on April 1, 2013. All inquiries and submissions should be submitted to Dr. Judy K.C. Bentley: bentleyj@cortland.edu

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Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story
Sarat Colling and Anthony J. Nocella II
Lara Drew Illustrations
Published by Piraeus Books
http://piraeusbooks.com/index.html

ABOUT LOVE AND LIBERATION

A powerful one of a kind short-story of a romantic couple in Houston, Texas that joined the notorious Animal Liberation Front, an illegal nonviolent covert underground organization to liberation nonhuman animals. Love and Liberation covers topics such as intersectionality, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, social justice, racism, straightedge, and even capitalism.

ABOUT LOVE AND LIBERATION

Gabriella and Andre are an everyday couple working up the corporate ladder in Houston, Texas. With a brand new condo, plans for marriage and successful careers, their lives are set – or so they think. One night while taking out the trash, Gabriella inadvertently gets a glimpse into the underground world of animal liberationists. Unsure what to make of it, she begins an investigation which leads to some shocking realizations. Soon the couple is delving deeper into a covert movement of radical animal liberationists labeled by the FBI as a top domestic threat. Armed with nonviolent tactics and love in their heart, the couple educates and trains to free those who are caged. With captivating black and white illustrations, this is an action-packed, fun and informative read.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

You can see how it happens: the oblivious couple has their comfortable lives interrupted by a revelation that slowly makes it impossible for them to carry on as before. What seems a quick, easy read turns out to also be a true story of evolution that leaves the reader asking, “How shall I change my life?”

- Ingrid Newkirk, founder PETA, and author of “Free the Animals: The Untold Story of the Animal Liberation Front in America”

You could spend days researching animal rights, or you could read Colling and Nocella’s Love and Liberation and get an entertaining crash course that deftly illustrates the basic ideology of animal liberation and drops tantalizing breadcrumbs for the reader to follow into deeper study.

- Denis Henry Hennelly, Director, Writer, and Editor of “Bold Native”

“Love and Liberation” confronts us with a question many ask ourselves: ask nicely for exploiters to deliver animals’ freedom, or start taking it? Attend another protest, or start breaking down doors? This book explores one couple’s answer to these questions. With knowledge comes responsibility. And here two people learn that the knowledge of billions of animals imprisoned brings the responsibility to do whatever it takes to free them.

- Peter Young, former Animal Liberation Front political prisoner

What I like about Love and Liberation is its sensitivity to an intersectional vision. It must be the best AR fiction read since Rage and Reason

- Dr. Richard Twine, author of “Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies”

Intriguing. Exciting. Heart-wrenching and exposing, Love and Liberation takes you on a wondrous journey of self discovery, forcing you to delve into your own conscious behavior begging answers to questions you might have never even contemplated. This is a must read!

- Shannon Keith, Director of “Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals”

“Love and Liberation” is a gripping tale of courage and compassion; it at once entertains and educates, inspires and informs. This short story manages to address a multitude of issues, all within a powerfully written narrative.

- Melanie Joy, Ph.D., author of “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows”

In crafting the beautiful Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story authors Sarat Colling and Anthony Nocella have provided a transformative understanding of our relationship with other animal species. The careful planning of the characters match the careful craft of the authors; each bringing to light the spirit of the movement and illustrating the drive and conviction of those who liberate and in turn liberate themselves.

- Dylan Powell, Vegan Police Radio

A touching and thought-provoking story that puts a new spin on the question of what love is and what role it should play in our life. We all know that love for one another brings two people together, but what about compassion for animals and a desire for justice? Crime, passion, sorrow, pleasure, pain and love blend together in unforeseen ways as two intelligent and sensitive individuals try to navigate a world that is not nearly as simple as it seems.

- Nick Cooney, author of “Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change”

Captivatingly written, Love and Liberation is a true to life and heartfelt story about people deciding to fight for something meaningful in this cruel and oppressive world… something bigger than themselves in a society that rewards self-interest and hypocritically represses freedom struggle. Outlining some intelligent guerrilla strategies, this could be the story of any potential animal liberationist, any budding Earth liberationist, anyone looking to take the struggle for freedom underground.

- Leslie James Pickering, author of “Mad Bomber Melville” and was a founder and spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office

In this engaging story, love and compassion abound as the heroes are emancipated from the consumeristic prison of cheeseburgers and leather shoes while they work enthusiastically to free nonhuman animals. I will never tire of reading about nonhuman animals being liberated from the grips of torture. These narratives inspire action, and there are countless cages yet full of nonhuman animals longing to be rescued.

- Dara Lovitz, author, “Muzzling A Movement: The Effects of Anti-Terrorism Law, Money, and Politics on Animal Activism”

“Love and Liberation” is a story of dedication and struggle born from political transformation: Do we allow the everyday cruelty of the world to continue right before our eyes, or do we intervene and reroute the world toward a new ethic of inter-species respect and appreciation? Speaking to issues of justice, humanity, environmentalism, capitalism, greed, corruption, love, and adventure, this provocative read is a must for all ages and political persuasions!

- Jason Del Gandio, author “Rhetoric for Radicals: A
Handbook for 21st Century Activists.”

This is an excellent, and thought-provoking story that – as all beautiful people now – reaffirms how the true revolutionary is guided by love.

- Dr. Richard White, Editor of Journal for Critical Animal Studies

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1st Annual South American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
Friday August 10, 2012
Chile

TEMA: “Hablar sobre Animales, Teoría y Activismo”

La invitación es la siguiente: se acoge a todo/a aquel que quiera hablar lo que quiera sobre animales. La consigna es arriesgada, pero con justa razón.
Los estudios críticos de animales son el primer campo académico de estudio dedicado a la abolición de la explotación animal y ecológica, de la opresión, apropiación y la dominación. Está basado en un movimiento amplio, global, emancipatorio e inclusivo, que persigue la liberación total y la libertad ante dicha opresión.
Nos interesa llamar la atención sobre las nuevas y viejas formas de pensar al animal (en las diversas maneras que toma la etiqueta de lo animal), que a lo largo de la historia, han terminado identificándolo, o bien con un homólogo fantasioso del humano, o bien una máquina de reflejos.
En ese sentido, un problema con que se encuentran los estudios críticos animales en general es aquél que lidia con la dificultad de encontrar la forma de cómo hablar justamente al/del/sobre-el animal. ¿Qué es un animal? ¿De qué hablamos, de qué queremos hablar, cuando hablamos de animales?
Es preciso buscar -como si fuera posible- una forma de hablar de los animales de manera alternativa a lo hecho corrientemente, en referencia a cómo hablamos de nosotros mismos, obligándonos así a repensar, no sólo al animal y la relación de éste con el ser humano, sino incluso la propia condición humana en general, que es en sí mismo un trabajo harto-urgente y necesario. Y desde esa nueva conceptualización que es tan enigmática todavía, buscar una nueva normativa. No se trata de borrar las diferencias, ni de desplazarlas; se trata de reconocerlas y convivir con ellas.

Es en esa reflexión, que la invitación no es a estudiar, viviseccionar, analizar al animal, sino hablar de él, conversar, desde nuestras distintas posturas cotidianas y áreas de conocimiento. Sea quizás la mejor manera de conocer un animal sin ponerle rejas o correas.
Por cierto, hay una total falta de presencia (salvo raras excepciones) de estas problemáticas de estudio en los programas de cualquier disciplina enseñada a nivel universitario. Los estudios críticos animales en sudamérica prácticamente no existen, y será también necesario reflexionar sobre eso.
¿Cómo puede pensarse en derechos animales en un continente que con justa razón se preocupa tan animadamente sobre los derechos humanos?
¿Hay algo en nuestra calidad de colonizados, de latinos, que es tocado por la dimensión subversiva que los estudios críticos mantienen en tanto estudio de una minoría oprimida?
Se trata, entonces, de comenzar a promover mediante las estrategias enunciadas la necesidad de llevar adelante estos estudios. Los estudios críticos animales asumen, aquí y ahora, la tarea de llamar la atención sobre la ausencia de estas reflexiones y problemáticas en la situación académica latinoamericana.
Bienvenidos,

ICAS Sudamérica.

*Fecha y dirección del evento están por confirmarse.

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ICAS Satellite Event at Minding Animals 2

This event is FREE and attendance at Minding Animals is not a pre-requisite. However please register for the event by sending an e-mail to mindinganimals@gmail.com because space is limited.

MAI would like to announce that the Institute for Critical Animal Studies will be holding a special Critical Animal Studies roundtable between 2:30pm and 5:30pm on 3 July in Utrecht before the Opening Reception to Minding Animals 2. A lunchtime roundtable will also follow during the main conference. Places are strictly limited to 100 people, so you MUST register your attendance – first come, first served. If you would like to register for this event, please send an email to mindinganimals@gmail.com Venue details and an agenda for this Special Event will be sent to all registrants before the Utrecht conference.

The founding of the Institute of Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) in 2001 helped to consolidate and give a name to diverse scholarly voices advocating a new ethical and social relationship between Homo sapiens and the other animal species.  Grounded in normative opposition to human domination and oppression of other animals, the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS) has developed into a multi- and cross-disciplinary field combining animal liberation activism and serious scholarship.  In cooperation with Minding Animals, ICAS invites participation in its afternoon Satellite Symposium on July 3.  The event will delineate possible future trajectories for CAS internationally.

As the early 21st century unfolds, thousands of other species are imperilled, while billions of individual animals suffer and die in countless animal industries dispersed throughout the globe.  Given this urgent context, what is the best way for international scholars in Critical Animal Studies to work together to maximise our impact as engaged intellectuals, both within our respective disciplines and across disciplines?  Conversely, what are some of the constraints acting against the growth of Critical Animal Studies?  Interested parties are encouraged to submit abstracts for a short discussion paper (15 minute presentation) based on one of the following two broad themes:

1. Strategy and Collaboration.  What areas of thematic convergence or shared emphasis might we identify, to ensure that the whole of our efforts is somehow more than the sum of our many parts?  What specific interventions or campaigns might we as intellectuals commit ourselves to in the near term, in order to impact knowledge production at the national and international levels?  How might we strengthen collaborative efforts across national borders?  How might our encounters across disciplines (and national cultures) generate new collaborative projects, actions, concepts, strategies, and theories?  How can they mobilise productive sites and forms of resistance and innovation against diverse manifestations of animal oppression?

2. The Future of CAS within the Disciplines.  As we look toward the future of CAS from our own individual disciplinary locations, what opportunities and challenges do we see for expanding the influence of CAS within those disciplines?  What should the relationship be between CAS and mainstream animal studies?  What would a more effective CAS political science, CAS economics, CAS literature, CAS geography, CAS sociology, CAS education, and so on, look like?  What priorities might we set for these CAS disciplinary ‘subfields’ do?  What should be their specific powers and effects?

The session will be devoted to a discussion of the Symposium themes, with the aim of reaching consensus on new directions for Critical Animal Studies.  Everyone is welcome to attend, but you will need to pre-register by emailing mindinganimals@gmail.com .  Papers, however, will primarily be solicited by personal invitation of the organisers.  However, interested scholars who have a strong wish to present should feel free to send a paper or paper abstract directly to the Symposium organiser, John Sanbonmatsu ( js@wpi.edu ), for consideration (no later than June 10).

Special note: the discussion will continue during a special lunchtime roundtable during the Minding Animals conference (date to be announced).  Participants need not plan to attend the Minding Animals conference in order to participate in the ICAS Symposium; however, you will need to be a Minding Animals delegate to attend the lunchtime roundtable.

To be kept informed of developments regarding the 2012 conference, please email your details (name, affiliation and email address only) to the following email address: mindinganimals@gmail.com

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Lara Drew. Photo: Michelle McAulay

Reposted: Monitor Online

Graduate wins thesis of the year

Victoria Murray

01 May 2012: University of Canberra graduate Lara Drew has won the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Thesis of the Year 2011 for her honours thesis titled ‘Freirean Pedagogy and Activism: Radical Adult Education in the Animal Liberation Movement’.

Lara wrote her thesis in 2011 for her Social and Community Studies (Honours) course.

The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is a New York-based organisation, which was founded in 2001. It aims to eliminate the domination and oppression of animals, and to transform higher education into a more inclusive environment for all species.

Ms Drew’s winning thesis looked at activism and the animal rights movement in terms of education.

“It looked at a theory based on an educational theorist called Paulo Freire, and at how his concepts of education could be applied to activism in the animal rights movement, and how that would be more effective for activists to apply that type of education to create better forms of activism.”

Lara graduated with a Bachelor of Community Education in 2011 and then went on to complete her honours in Social and Community Studies in 2011. She began her PhD studies at the beginning of 2012.

Ms Drew has always had a passion for animal rights and activism.

“I have been able to weave in my activist interest with my academic interest and so I am currently doing a PhD in education but it focuses on activism and animal rights,” she said.

“It is looking at how radical forms of education could be used for activism in the animal rights movement.”

Ms Drew attended the awards ceremony in March at the 11th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Ms Drew’s honours thesis was nominated by Anthony Nocella II, an academic and activist who worked at Hamline University in Minnesota, who is centrally involved with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies.

Ms Drew had the privilege of meeting Mr Nocella, among other academics who were conducting research in similar areas.

Lara has recently illustrated a book written by Anthony Nocella II and Sarat Colling that has been published called ‘Love and Liberation: An Animal Liberation Front Story’. Ms Drew spoke about the book at the conference.

Ms Drew is very happy and overwhelmed that her thesis won the competition and cannot wait to travel after she completes her PhD.

“Right now I just want to focus on my PhD and I would like to travel a lot more and work at other universities and focus on this area of research as it is popular overseas.”

http://www.canberra.edu.au/monitor/2012/may/graduate-wins-thesis-of-the-year

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Since 2010, Princeton University has been cited over twenty times to be in violation of the bare minimum requirements set forth by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Welfare Act. Amongst the staggering list of charges, reports unveiled that the University has neglected ailing animals, deliberately deprived animals of water and veterinary medical care, routinely subjected animals to excessive confinement, and maintained speciously incomplete record keeping.

In response to this degenerate display of Princeton University’s blatant disregard for the animals they hold captive, a large and organized anti-vivisection alliance has emerged consisting of Win Animal Rights (WAR), Animal Activists of Philly (AAP), and Friends of Animals United NY/NJ (FAUN) to bring these egregious acts into the public consciousness. While these organizations have been tirelessly campaigning against this institution for over eight months, they are now unifying their efforts by establishing a Princeton-based body of campaigners, increasing their presence on other areas of the campus (including Green Hall – the actual primate laboratory), circulating petitions, creating relevant multi-media content, and with the support/sponsorship of Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) are developing a central website to expose the horrors behind these violations.

To join the cause, sign the petition, donate, and/or learn more please visit the links provided below:

Princeton Primate Abuse: http://www.princetonprimateabuse.com/

Friends of Animals United (FAUN): http://www.faunnj.org/

Animal Activists of Philly (AAP): http://www.meetup.com/Animal-Activists-of-Philly/

Win Animal Rights (WAR): http://www.facebook.com/WinAnimalRights

Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN): http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/

Video of the Alliance’s protest on April 28th, 2012: http://youtu.be/nAaOvh0csOk

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Tereza Vandrovcová the main organizer of last year’s 2nd Annual European Conference on Critical Animal Studies, defines Critical Animal Studies on a Vimeo video.

Tereza Vandrovcová on Critical Animal Studies from F Tepper on Vimeo.

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Interview with Dr. Vasile Stanescu graduate of Stanford University, a board member of ICAS, member of the Editorial Collective of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and Co-Senior Editor of the Critical Animal Studies Book Series with Rodopi Press is interviewed on the subject of the “Institute for Critical Animal Studies, North America and the Occupy Movement” on Vegan Police Radio. Click here to read the whole interview.

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MAD Update, SLAPP Lawsuits, and the 2012 North American Critical Animal Studies Conference

Dylan Powell is back on the show to not only give us an update on the Marineland Animal Defense campaign but to also talk about the ways that MAD and Shark Allies Niagara have dealt with the threat of SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). An important conversation considering the current climate of repression to environmental and animal rights activists.

After the break Kimberly Socha joins Dylan Powell to talk about the 11th Annual North American Critical Animal Studies Conference in Buffalo, New York from March 2-4, 2012 at Canisius College. We even get hear a little bit about Socha’s new book, “Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation“ the first publication of a new Critical Animal Studies book series.

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The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is pleased to announce our 2012 Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year. Awards will be bestowed on March 3, 2012 during the conference at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY (March 2-4). We thank the many nominees for submitting their work. It was an honor to consider the wonderful nominations from around the world! Although the final decisions were difficult, we truly feel that the following award recipients have done superb work to help animals and end oppression. We are proud to recognize their contributions to the field of Critical Animal Studies.

Critical Animal Studies Grassroots Project of the Year
“Food Empowerment Project”: http://www.foodispower.org/

Critical Animal Studies Media of the Year
“Conflict Gypsy”: http://www.conflictgypsy.com/

Critical Animal Studies Faculty Paper/Project of the Year
Dr. Lori Gruen, “The first 100”: http://first100chimps.wesleyan.edu/

Critical Animal Studies Undergraduate Paper/Project/Thesis of the Year
Lara Drew: “Freirean Pedagogy and Activism: Radical Adult Education in the Animal Liberation Movement

Critical Animal Studies Graduate Paper/Project/Dissertation of the Year
James Stanescu: “The Abattoir of Humanity: Philosophy in the Age of the Factory Farm”

Critical Animal Studies Book of the Year
Jason Hribal: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance

Critical Animal Studies Tyke Scholar of the Year
Tereza Vandrovcova

Critical Animal Studies Britches Scholar of the Year
Jessica Groling

Critical Animal Studies Hilda Scholar of the Year
Adam Weitzenfeld

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In a recent New York Times article exploring the rise of the many manifestations of “animal studies” across campuses and universities nationwide, the Institute for Critical Animal Studies’ Journal for Critical Animal Studies was noted as being part of this important, growing movement in the academy. In particular, Karen L.F. Houle’s essay “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming-Plant” (Volume IX, Issue 1/2, 2011) got special mention for “following in [the] word tracks” of Jacques Derrida.

The term “animal studies,” developed out of the field of animal research (i.e., nonhuman animal testing, dissection, and vivisection), can be confusing to some advocates. Two academic fields that arose at the same time in defense and advocacy of nonhuman animals are human-animal studies and critical animal studies. Moreover, human-animal studies was also mentioned under the umbrella of animal studies, but instead relates to animal advocacy, welfare, and protection. Recently, animal studies and human-animal studies have been adopted by objectivist opportunists not dedicated to promoting veganism and animal liberation, but rather, they are interested in theoretically studying the concept of the animal as subject. This can be argued,  as noted by Anthony J. Nocella II, as leading to theoretical vivisection lacking ethical consideration. Just as activist-academics from the Animals and Society Institute are trying to keep true to what human-animal studies is (i.e. animal protection and advocacy), critical animal studies and the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, a more board and radical field of study, must demand that those who use the term critical animal studies stay engaged in intersectional social justice “dedicated to the abolition of animal and ecological exploitation, oppression, and domination. CAS is grounded in a broad, global, emancipatory, and inclusionary movement for total  liberation and freedom” (ICAS website).

To forward the goals of ICAS and CAS, we will be holding the 11th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies with a special theme “From Greece to Wall Street: Global Economic Revolutions and Critical Animal Studies.” This event is taking place from March 2-4 at Canisius College on Buffalo, NY.

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Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation
By: Kim Socha
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2012, XIV, 258 pp.
Pb: 978-90-420-3423-5
€ 54 / US$ 81

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ABOUT THE BOOK

This interdisciplinary study fuses analysis of feminist literature and manifestos, radical political theory, critical vanguard studies, women’s performance art, and popular culture to argue for the animal liberation movement as successor to the liberationist visions of the early twentieth-century avant-gardes, most especially the Surrealists. These vanguard groups are judiciously critiqued for their refusal to confront their own misogyny, a quandary that continues to plague animal activists, thereby disallowing for cohesion and full recognition of women’s value within a culturally marginalized cause.

This volume is of interest to anyone who is concerned about the continued—indeed, escalating—violence against nonhumans. More broadly, it will interest those seeking new pathways to challenge the dominant power constructions through which oppression of humans, nonhumans, and the environment thrives. Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde ultimately poses the animal liberation movement as having serious political and cultural implications for radical social change, destruction of hierarchy and for a world without shackles and cages, much as the Surrealists envisioned.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword – Helena Pedersen and Vasile Stanescu: Series Editor’s Introduction: What is “Critical” about Animal Studies? From the Animal “Question” to the Animal “Condition”

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rooting for the Avant-Garde

I. Avant-Garde Women Writers and Destruction in the Flesh

II. Staring Back in the Flesh: Avant-Garde Performance as an ALM Paradigm

III. Convulsive Beauty, Infinite Spheres and Irrational Reasons: Reverie on a New Consciousness

Conclusion: Love and Laughter Now: Plucking at Stems or Uprooting Oppression?

Works Cited

Index

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Kim Socha is an animal activist and sits on the board of the Animal Rights Coalition in Minneapolis, MN. Holding a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism, she works as a composition and literature instructor with publications in the areas of surrealism, Latino literature and pedagogy.

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