SLSA: Animals and Society
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
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All books below are 40% off using code MNSLSA22. Code expires November 9, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // ART AND MEDIA // ENVIRONMENT
POLITICS AND ACTIVISM // ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // ANTHROPOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // DIGITAL CULTURE // ETHNOGRAPHY
RACE // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GEOGRAPHY
LITERATURE // LITERARY CRITICISM // DISABILITY STUDIES
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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
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Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
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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
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The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall
- Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
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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
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Saving Animals Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care Elan Abrell 2021 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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”
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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
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Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast A Multispecies Impression Julian Yates 2017 Spring
- Refocusing our lens on literature and history to lives beyond the human
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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
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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
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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
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All Thoughts Are Equal Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy John Ó Maoilearca 2015 Fall
- A much-needed illumination of the “non-philosophy” of François Laruelle
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Zoo Renewal White Flight and the Animal Ghetto Lisa Uddin 2015 Spring
- Race, urban life, and the postwar revitalization of American zoos
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Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring
- Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
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The Intellective Space Thinking beyond Cognition Laurent Dubreuil 2015 Spring
- A daring exploration of the space between language and thought
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Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach John Hartigan Jr. 2015 Spring
- What can we learn about culture from other species?
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Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall
- All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
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Loving Animals Toward a New Animal Advocacy Kathy Rudy 2013 Fall
- Improving the lives of animals through emotional connection and empathy
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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
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Artist Animal Steve Baker 2012 Fall
- A provocative exploration of the work of contemporary artists who engage with questions of animal life
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Worm Work Recasting Romanticism Janelle A. Schwartz 2012 Fall
- The ascent of worms from creepy creatures to a vital Romantic literary trope
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Without Offending Humans A Critique of Animal Rights Élisabeth de Fontenay 2012 Fall
- What do humans owe to animals?
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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
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HumAnimal Race, Law, Language Kalpana Rahita Seshadri 2012 Spring
- Power and counterpower in the space of silence