Animals, biopolitics, law : lively legalities / edited by Irus Braverman.

Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. Animal...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Braverman, Irus, 1970- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Space, materiality and the normative.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The regulatory life of threatened species lists / Irus Braverman
  • 2. Probiotic legalities: de-domestication and rewilding before the law / Jamie Lorimer
  • 3. Governing jellyfish: eco-security and planetary "life" in the anthropocene / Elizabeth R. Johnson
  • 4. Tracing bacterial legalities: the fluid ecologies of the European Union's bathing water directive / Christopher Bear
  • 5. Crow Kill / Adam Reed
  • 6. Nonhuman animal resistance and the improprieties of live property / Kathryn Gillespie
  • 7. Lively sanctuaries: a Shabbat of animal sacer / Elan Abrell
  • 8. Multispecies families, capitalism, and the law / Eben Kirksey
  • 9. The conflict of human and nonhuman laws / Richard Janda and Richard Lehun
  • 10. Lively agency: life and law in the anthropocene / Andreas Philippopoulous-Mihalopoulos.