Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies

Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. This book aims to bring roadkill to the foreground of current discussions among scholars and activists in these fields in order to demonstrate that roadkill is a uniquely important site from which to understand and contest the machinations of the dominant social order. It argues that a careful examination of roadkill can help both to uncover the hidden violence of contemporary human-centered systems of mobility and to develop alternative modes of mobility for a renewed social life in common with our more-than-human kin.

Offers a sustained analysis of roadkill, an increasingly important issue in the global context Provides a unique combination of cutting-edge research in both mobility studies and animal studies Conversant with leading paradigms in critical race theory, decolonial theory, and Continental philosophy

Autorentext
Matthew Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at California State University Fullerton, USA. He specializes in animal studies and environmental humanities, and brings philosophies and theories of mobility to bear on various aspects of research and teaching.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. How (Not) to Look.- Chapter 2: What Is Roadkill?.- Chapter 3: Roadkill and Other Sacrificeable Lives.- Chapter 4: Subjects to Roadkill.- Chapter 5: Profaning the Streets.

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