Animals in Our Midst

This Open Access book brings together authoritative voices in animal and environmental ethics, who address the many different facets of changing human-animal relationships in the Anthropocene. As we are living in complex times, the issue of how to establish meaningful relationships with other animal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Bovenkerk, Bernice (-)
Otros Autores:	Keulartz, Jozef
Formato:	Libro electrónico
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Cham : Springer Nature 2021 2021.
Colección:	The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
Materias:	Veterinary medicine Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy The environment Zoology & animal sciences Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science Philosophy of Nature Ethics Environment, general Zoology Animal Ethics Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics Environmental Sciences Environmental Ethics Anthropocene Animal Agency Gene Technology
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009653949406719

Tabla de Contenidos:

Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Editors and Contributors
1 Animals in Our Midst: An Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene
1.3 The Netherlands as Mirror of Biodiversity Problems
1.3.1 The Recovery of Wildlife
1.3.2 Exotic Species and Climate Refugees
1.3.3 The Sixth Mass Extinction
1.3.4 Rewilding and De-extinction
1.3.5 Intensive Livestock Farming
1.3.6 The Ecological Impact of Large-Scale Hunting
1.3.7 Companion Animals
1.3.8 The 'Liminalisation' of Wildlife
1.3.9 The Struggle for Nature Between People
1.4 Overview of the Volume
1.4.1 Part 1: Animal Agents
1.4.2 Part 2: Domesticated Animals
1.4.3 Part 3: Urban Animals
1.4.4 Part 4: Wild Animals
1.4.5 Part 5: Animal Artefacts
References
2 Animal Conservation in the Twenty-First Century
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Viable Populations
2.3 Sufficiently Large Numbers and the Amount of Area They Require
2.4 Challenges
2.5 Trophic Downgrading: "When the Cat Is Away, the Mice Will Play"
2.6 Conservation in Twenty-First Century: 'Cores, Corridors and Carnivores' Meets 'Nature Needs Half'
2.7 Viable Ecosystems with Red Deer and Wolf in the Netherlands
2.7.1 Current Population of Red Deer in the Netherlands
2.7.2 Current Population of Wolf in the Netherlands
2.7.3 Predator-Prey Relation Between Wolf and Red Deer
2.8 The Netherlands in 2120
2.9 Change
2.10 Further Reading
References
Part I Animal Agents
3 Taking Animal Perspectives into Account in Animal Ethics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Conceptualizing Animal Agency: Two Models
3.2.1 Propositional Agency
3.2.2 Materialist Agency
3.2.3 A Working Definition of Agency
3.3 Taking into Account Relational Agency in Animal Ethics on the Micro- and Macro Level
3.3.1 Relational Agency and Animal Ethics.
3.3.2 Taking into Account Macro-Relations in Thinking About Agency and Ethics
3.4 Risks for Relational Approaches to Ethics
3.5 Further Directions
3.5.1 Research
3.5.2 Animal Cultures
3.5.3 Animal Workers
3.5.4 Further Directions
References
4 Turning to Animal Agency in the Anthropocene
4.1 The Centrality of Agency
4.2 On Animal Agency and Self-Judging Obligations
4.3 Standpoint Acknowledgement and How to Ask the Right Questions
4.4 Calling for an "Animal Agency Turn"
References
5 Animal Difference in the Age of the Selfsame
5.1 Progressivist Anti-naturalism
5.2 Sameness and Anthropocentrism
5.3 Violence Against Otherness
5.4 A Proposal for an Ethic of Animal Difference
5.5 Sameness and the Anthropocene
5.6 Conclusion
References
6 Should the Lion Eat Straw Like the Ox? Animal Ethics and the Predation Problem
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Utilitarianism
6.2.1 Piecemeal Engineering
6.2.2 The Balance of Nature and the Argument from Ignorance
6.2.3 Paradise Engineering
6.3 Rights Theories
6.3.1 Lack of Moral Agency
6.3.2 Non-human Victims
6.4 The Capabilities Approach
6.4.1 The Other Species Capability
6.4.2 Broadening the Capabilities Approach
6.5 Political Theory of Animal Rights
6.5.1 Similarities and Dissimilarities with the Capabilities Approach
6.5.2 Competence and Risk
6.5.3 Positive and Negative Duties
6.5.4 The Limits of a Place-Based Approach
6.5.5 Blurring Boundaries
6.5.6 Learning to Hunt and to Avoid Predators
6.6 Concluding Remarks
References
7 Justified Species Partiality
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Species-Membership Views of Moral Status
7.3 Strategy One: Moral Status Equality and Moral Considerability Diversity
7.4 Strategy Two: Equal Moral Status Without Equal Political Status.
7.5 Strategy Three: Differential Epistemic Position
7.6 Conclusion
References
8 Humanity in the Living, the Living in Humans
8.1 Introduction: Animals, Plants and Humans
8.2 Food Makes the World Go Around
8.3 Values in Animal Plant Interactions
8.4 Do They Communicate with Each Other?
8.5 Collaboration as a Mechanism of Co-evolution
8.6 Tree of Life or Network?
8.7 Symbiosis, Symbionts, Holobionts and Place
8.8 Different Types of Relations Inter- and Intra-species
8.9 Matter and Meaning
Philosophical Questions
8.10 Barriers: Classifications, Anthropocentrism and Hubris
8.11 Philosophical Challenges: Pandora's Box Versus New Skills
8.12 Conclusion
References
9 Comment: The Current State of Nonhuman Animal Agency
9.1 Changing Perspectives Within Animal Ethics
9.2 The Problem of Predation
9.3 Human and Nonhuman Animals
9.4 The Future of Agency
References
Part II Domesticated Animals
10 An Introduction to Ecomodernism
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Optimal Role of Animals in Our Food System
10.3 The Case for Intensification
10.4 How History Shapes the Way We Think About Animal Farming
10.5 The Future of Animal Farming
10.6 The Future of Animal Eating
10.7 Conclusion
References
11 Place-Making by Cows in an Intensive Dairy Farm: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Nonhuman Animal Agency
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Language and the Politics of Human Exceptionalism
11.3 Cows as Social and Linguistic Beings
11.4 Linguistic Place-Making in an Intensive Dairy Farm
11.4.1 The Fieldwork Site
11.4.2 Place-Making Through Practices of Sociality and Multilingualism
11.5 Conclusion
References
12 The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Industrial Animal Production
12.3 Reforming Husbandry in Industrial Animal Production.
12.4 Philosophers and Animal Husbandry
12.5 Animal Husbandry and Animal Activism
12.6 The Eclipse of Husbandry and the Rise of Narcissism
12.7 Conclusion
References
13 Reimagining Human Responsibility Towards Animals for Disaster Management in the Anthropocene
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Animal Disaster Ethics: Developing Disaster Frameworks
13.3 Animal Disaster Ethics: Revealing Animal Vulnerabilities
13.4 Animal Disaster Management: A Reimagining
13.5 Animal Disaster Management: Humanitarian Impulse and Animal Welfare Science
13.6 Animal Disaster Management: Aims and Recommendations for Ethically Responsible Caretaking
13.7 Recommendations
References
14 The Decisions of Wannabe Dog Keepers in the Netherlands
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Animal Ethicists' Views on Dog Ownership
14.3 Pedigree Pups
14.4 Pups Without Pedigree
14.5 Shelter Dogs
14.6 Discussion
References
15 Comment: Animals in 'Non-Ideal Ethics' and 'No-Deal Ethics'
15.1 Non-ideal Animal Ethics and the Meat Industry
15.2 Non-ideal Animal Ethics and Disaster Management
15.3 Non-ideal Ethics and Ethnographic Animal Studies
15.4 Towards a No-Deal Animal Ethics
References
Part III Urban Animals
16 Stray Agency and Interspecies Care: The Amsterdam Stray Cats and Their Humans
16.1 Introduction
16.2 The Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation
16.3 Degrees of Agency
16.4 Networks of Care
16.5 Cat Politics
16.5.1 Stray Cat Rights
16.5.2 Democratic Agency
16.6 Cat-Human Relations at the SAZ as a Model for Future Interactions
16.6.1 Ecologies of Care
16.6.2 Sharing the City
16.6.3 Interspecies Resistance as the Foundation for New Relations
References
17 "Eek! A Rat!"
17.1 Introduction
17.2 From the Lab to the Liminal
17.3 How Fear and Disgust Impair Moral Judgment.
17.4 Rat Politics
17.5 Failure of Imagination
17.6 Sympathy for the Rat
17.7 Compassion: A Stepping Stone?
17.8 Compassion: Cornerstone of Interspecies Morality
17.9 From Anthropocentric to Multispecies Epistemologies
17.10 From Philosophical Deliberation to Compassionate Engagement
17.11 Conclusion
References
18 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo: Ethical Potential of Captive Encounters
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Interpreting the YouTube Zoo
18.3 YouTube Orangutans Unsettling Binary Concepts
18.4 The YouTube Zoo: Increasing Encounter Value or Enabling a Moral Gaze?
18.5 Conclusion
References
19 Wild Animals in the City: Considering and Connecting with Animals in Zoos and Aquariums
19.1 Introduction
19.2 Animal Welfare
19.3 Human-Animal Interactions
19.4 Wildness in Zoos
19.5 Compassionate Education Programs
19.6 Real Connections with Artificial Means
19.7 Conclusion
References
20 Comment: Encountering Urban Animals: Towards the Zoöpolis
20.1 The Urban, the Animal
20.2 Urban Animal Encounters and the Politics of Spatial Access
20.2.1 The Home
20.2.2 The Zoo
20.2.3 The Streets/Parks/Margins
20.3 Towards the Zoöpolis
20.3.1 'Articulating With' Animals
20.3.2 Making Visible Relationalities
20.3.3 Re-Storying the City to Imagine Otherwise
20.4 Conclusion
References
Part IV Wild Animals
21 Should We Provide the Bear Necessities? Climate Change, Polar Bears and the Ethics of Supplemental Feeding
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Some Basic Premises of This Paper
21.3 The Situation of Polar Bears
21.4 Possible Responses to Abrupt Polar Bear Starvation
21.5 Ethical Reasons for Supplemental Feeding of Starving Bears
21.6 Ethical Reservations About Feeding Bears
21.6.1 Would Feeding Bears Harm the Bears Themselves?.
21.6.2 Would Feeding Bears Harm Other Sentient Animals?.

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