Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial (eBook, ePUB)

Averting Our Gaze
Redaktion: Grusovnik, Tomaz; Syse, Karen Lykke; Spannring, Reingard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades alternative explanations of social and political inaction have emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit model, denialism proposes that people actively avoid unpleasant information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex. The contributors examine the theory of denialism in regards to environmental pollution and animal abuse through a range of disciplines, including social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural history and law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793610478
• Artikelnr.: 60478192

Autorenporträt

Toma Gruovnik is associate professor of philosophy of education and senior research fellow in the faculty of education at the University of Primorska in Slovenia. Reingard Spannring is a sociologist at the Institute for Educational Science, University of Innsbruck in Austria. Karen Lykke Syse holds a PhD in cultural history from the University of Oslo and is an agronomist and ethnologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Introducing Denialism in Environmental and Animal Abuse
Toma Gruovnik, Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse
Chapter 1: From Denial to Moral Disengagement: How Integrating Fundamental
Insights from Psychology Can Help Us Better Understand Ongoing Inaction in
the Light of an Exacerbating Climate Crisis
Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Chapter 2: Denial as a Sense of Entitlement: Assessing the Role of Culture
Arne Johan Vetlesen
Chapter 3: Skepticism and Animal Virtues: Denialism of Animal Morality
Toma Gruovnik
Chapter 4: Human Uniqueness, Animal Minds, and Anthropodenial
Adam See
Chapter 5: Suffering Animals: Creaturely Fellowship and its Denial
Craig Taylor
Chapter 6: Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices
Martin Lee Mueller and Katja Maria Hydle
Chapter 7: The Animal that Therefore was Removed from View: The
Presentation of Meat in Norway, 1950-2020
Karen Lykke Syse and Kristian Bjørkdahl
Chapter 8: Political Economy of Denialism: Addressing the Case of Animal
Agriculture
John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka
Chapter 9: Celebrate the Anthropocene? Why "Techno-Eco-Optimism" is a
Strategy of Ultimate Denial
Helen Kopnina, Joe Gray, Haydn Washington and John Piccolo
Chapter 10: The Horse in the Room: The Denial of Animal Subjectivity and
Agency in Social Science Research on Human-Horse Relationships
Reingard Spannring and José De Giorgio-Schoorl
Chapter 11: Still in the Shadow of Man? Judicial Denialism and Nonhuman
Animals
Opi Outhwaite