Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation

This collection brings together scholarly work on the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman labor, the differences and similarities of non/human oppression, the possibilities of alliances and coalition-building for total liberation, and the challenges and opportunities of incorporating a critical class perspective into animal liberation work.

This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers working and dying in these necropolitical facilities? 2) If there is an intersection between class and species, which, in turn incorporates race, gender, abilities, and other categories of oppression, in which ways is the contemporary Animal Activist Nonprofit Sector (AANS) reifying or disrupting these hierarchies in its mission towards animal liberation? 3) If there are classist and racist biases in AANS, how can the AANS incorporate social class in dialogue with the liberation of nonhuman animals in order to build strategic alliances and coalitions between social movements and political subjects? This book not only envisions a world without these hierarchies but offer tangible steps the AANS can take to achieve liberation for human and nonhuman animals.

Autorentext

Zane McNeill is a scholar-activist from West Virginia and was co-manager of the collective, Rights for Animal Rights Activists (RARA). They have published edited collections with Lantern Publishing & Media, PM Press, and Routledge.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments - Zane McNeill: Introduction - Catherine Oliver: Unfulfilled Resistance: The Labor of Not Surviving - S. Marek Muller: Violence Begets Violence: The Necessity of Solidarity with U.S. Slaughterhouse Workers - Ellyse Winter: Undercover Investigations and Carceral Veganism: The Limitations of "Removing the Veil" - Kelly Shanahan: Death or Deportation: A Nebraska-Based Study of the Exploitation of Immigrant Workers in Meatpacking Facilities and the Immigration Consequences of the Animal Protection Movement - Drew Robert Winter: Laboring for Nonhumans: An Autoethnography of an Animal Rights Non- Government Organization - Rajesh Reddy: Horses of a Different Color: Reckoning with Race in the March for Animal Rights - Hailey Huget: Abolish the Meat Industry: A Roadmap for Transforming Animal Liberation from a Single-Issue Cause into a Mass Movement - Will Boisseau: Animal Liberation, Class and Direct Action for Total Liberation - Dan Fischer: An Essay on Total Liberation: Marcusean Insights for Catalyzing Transformation - Nathan Poirier: Concluding Thoughts - Notes on Contributors.