Animal Studies Collection

Books on animal studies and environment, philosophy, urban studies, politics, and more.

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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring: Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring: A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring: A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring: Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
In the Company of Grace A Veterinarian's Memoir of Trauma and Healing Jody Lulich 2022 Fall: The son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassion in veterinary practice
Walleye A Beautiful Fish of the Dark Paul J. Radomski 2022 Spring: Walleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival
Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring: Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring: What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring: A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall: Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring: Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall: A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring: A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
Loon Lessons Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver James D. Paruk 2021 Spring: The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird
Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring: A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall: A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets
Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall: How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
Wolf Island Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal L. David Mech 2020 Fall: The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our understanding of one of nature’s most iconic creatures
Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall: Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations
Thinking Plant Animal Human Encounters with Communities of Difference David Wood 2020 Spring: Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology
Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring: Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall: A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall: An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
Creaturely Love How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human Dominic Pettman 2017 Spring: A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the ages
Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring: Challenging the view that caring is only human
Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring: Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall: Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring: A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring: Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall: A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring: Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos
Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring: Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
The Intellective Space Thinking beyond Cognition Laurent Dubreuil 2015 Spring: A daring exploration of the space between language and thought
Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach John Hartigan Jr. 2015 Spring: What can we learn about culture from other species?
Loving Animals Toward a New Animal Advocacy Kathy Rudy 2013 Fall: Improving the lives of animals through emotional connection and empathy
Trash Animals How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, Editors 2013 Spring: From pigeons to prairie dogs, reflections on reviled animals and their place in contemporary life
Artist Animal Steve Baker 2012 Fall: A provocative exploration of the work of contemporary artists who engage with questions of animal life
Worm Work Recasting Romanticism Janelle A. Schwartz 2012 Fall: The ascent of worms from creepy creatures to a vital Romantic literary trope
Without Offending Humans A Critique of Animal Rights Élisabeth de Fontenay 2012 Fall: What do humans owe to animals?
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 2012 Fall: Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell
HumAnimal Race, Law, Language Kalpana Rahita Seshadri 2012 Spring: Power and counterpower in the space of silence
CIFERAE A Bestiary in Five Fingers Thomas R.J. Tyler 2012 Spring: A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy
Governing the Wild Ecotours of Power Stephanie Rutherford 2011 Fall: Shows how iconic representations of nature—from museum to theme park—define our ideas about saving the natural world
The Insect and the Image Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 Janice Neri 2011 Fall: How the picturing of insects inspired new ideas about art, science, nature, and commerce
Surface Encounters Thinking with Animals and Art Ron Broglio 2011 Fall: Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art
Swamplife People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden 2011 Spring: Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades
Animal Stories Narrating across Species Lines Susan McHugh 2011 Spring: How cross-species companionship is figured across a variety of media—and why it matters
Human Error Species-Being and Media Machines Dominic Pettman 2011 Spring: Argues that humanity can be seen as a case of mistaken identity
Developing Animals Wildlife and Early American Photography Matthew Brower 2010 Fall: How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals
Insect Media An Archaeology of Animals and Technology Jussi Parikka 2010 Fall: Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans with A Theory of Meaning Jakob von Uexküll 2010 Fall: The influential work of speculative biology—and a key document in posthumanist studies—now available in a new, accurate English translation
Electric Animal Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife Akira Mizuta Lippit 2008 Fall: A fascinating exploration of the symbolic place animals hold within our culture.
What Is Posthumanism? Cary Wolfe 2009 Fall: Beyond humanism and anthropocentrism
Animal Capital Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times Nicole Shukin 2009 Spring: Illuminates the profound contingency of market life on animal figures and flesh
Atavistic Tendencies The Culture of Science in American Modernity Dana Seitler 2008 Fall: A provocative exploration of the impact of the human sciences on literature, politics, and culture
Dorsality Thinking Back through Technology and Politics David Wills 2008 Spring: An ambitious investigation of what lurks behind our humanity and our technology
Taxidermic Signs Reconstructing Aboriginality Pauline Wakeham 2008 Spring: A fascinating study of how taxidermy reinforces racial stereotypes of aboriginality
When Species Meet Donna J. Haraway 2007 Fall: Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?
The Parasite Michel Serres 2007 Spring: The foundational work in the area now known as posthuman thought
Zoontologies The Question of the Animal Cary Wolfe, Editor 2003 Spring: Explores the boundaries between the animal and the human—includes an original essay by Jacques Derrida