Animal Death

'A danger for animal studies is that too heavy an emphasis on animal suffering and death risks catalysing further inertia: either by contributing to a sense of powerlessness, or by provoking others to rile against perceived opprobrium. From this perspective, Animal Death is a triumph. The chapters dealing with issues such as factory farming are unsparing, but equally argue that optimism is not impossible if such topics are broached with cultural and philosophical understanding.'

Jay Johnston is senior lecturer, Department of Studies in Religion, University of Sydney and senior lecturer, School of Art History and Art Education, COFA, University of New South Wales.

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey is a professor in the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong.

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Introduction by Jay Johnston and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

1. In the shadow of all this death by Deborah Bird Rose
2. Human and animal space in historic ‘pet’ cemeteries in London, New York and Paris by Hilda Kean
3. Necessary expendability: an exploration of nonhuman death in public by Tarsh Bates and Megan Schlipalius
4. Confronting corpses and theatre animals by Peta Tait
5. Respect for the (animal) dead by Chloë Taylor
6. Mining animal death for all it’s worth by Melissa Boyde
7. Reflecting on donkeys: images of death and redemption by Jill Bough
8. Picturing cruelty: chicken advocacy and visual culture by Annie Potts and Philip Armstrong
9. Learning from dead animals: horse sacrifice in ancient Salamis and the Hellenisation of Cyprus by Agata Mrva-Montoya
10. The last image: Julia Leigh’s The Hunter as film by Carol Freeman
11. Euthanasia and morally justifiable killing in a veterinary clinical context by Anne Fawcett
12. Preventing and giving death at the zoo: Heini Hediger’s ‘death due to behaviour’ by Matthew Chrulew
13. Nothing to see – something to see: white animals and exceptional life/death by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
14. ‘Death-in-life’: curare, restrictionism and abolitionism in Victorian and Edwardian anti-vivisectionist thought by Greg Murrie
15. Huskies and hunters: living and dying in Arctic Greenland by Rick De Vos

'The inspiring and inclusive ways in which the book challenges readers are enhanced by the chapters dealing with animal death in less predictable settings, and by its artistically oriented interrogations ... no reader of the book need feel excluded from this at once descriptive and aspirational conception of life.'
Sam Cadman   Australian Book Review

‘This collection is a worthwhile read for those concerned about animal ethics. As Chloe Taylor writes, "how we treat the dead has direct implications for how we treat the living".’
Kelsi Nagy   Journal of Animal Ethics

Format: paperback
Size: 210 × 148 mm
330 pages
18 b&w illustrations and 9 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2013
ISBN: 9781743326985
Publication: 01 Mar 2020
Series: Animal Politics