Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans

Blurring boundaries in human-animal relationships

Bernice Bovenkerk editor Jozef Keulartz editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:22nd Apr '18

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This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.

The first book to systematically address the far-reaching changes in human-animal relationships during the Anthropocene 
Focuses on rethinking the traditional divisions between humans and animals

Contains contributions from researchers at the cutting edge of their fields who systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations

ISBN: 9783319830100

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 6496g

414 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016