While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined.

Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young.

This book compares and contrasts the response of the political systems in Britain and the United States to the rise of the animal protection movement and the growing societal concern for the well-being of animals.

Looking at the impact on political thinking caused by the idea that animals are morally important beings, this text suggests that liberalism, despite having weaknesses, is the most appropriate ideological position for the protection of ...

This little gift book for the political cynic marries quotations with images for an entertaining jaunt through a zoo of political characters that everyone will recognise. The perfect gift book with political punch.

This concise book intervenes in Deleuze studies, posthumanism, and animal studies, as well as areas of study as wide-ranging as affect theory, aesthetics, embodied cognition, political theory, process philosophy, the theory of play, and the ...

Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals.

Robert Briggs thinks the politics of animals and animality beyond the critique of anthropocentrism and the concerns of biopolitics.

Most states currently protect animals through outlawing the infliction of ¡unnecessary suffering¢. But do animals¢ rights end there? In this book, Alasdair Cochrane argues that states must go much further.