Animal Law

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Part I Carceral Thinking in Animal Protection: Justifications and Repudiations
Introduction Lori Gruen & Justin Marceau, 1
Ch 1 Paula Tarankow, Saved: The Historical Roots of Humane Carceral Logics in the United States 15
Ch 2 Richard L Cupp, Jr Criminal Animal Abuse, Interconnectedness, and Human Morality 37
Ch 3 Ashley N Beck, Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: A Prosecutor’s Efforts to Combat Animal Cruelty 53
Ch 4 Pamela D Frasch, Examining Anticruelty Enhancements: Historical Context and Policy Advances 70
Ch 5 Benjamin Levin, Carceral Progressivism and Animal Victims 87

Part II Animal Law in Context: The Limits of Carceral Strategies
Introduction Lori Gruen & Justin Marceau, 100
Ch 6 Jennifer M Chacón, Spectacular Immigration Enforcement in Hidden Spaces 105
Ch 7 Sam Kamin, Against a “War on Animal Cruelty”: Lessons from the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration 128
Ch 8 Tamara L Kuennen, Criminalization as a Solution to Abuse: A Cautionary Tale 144
Ch 9 Aya Gruber, Humanizing Animals, Dehumanizing Humans 158
Ch 10 Delcianna J Winders, Treating Humans Worse Than Animals? Exposing a False Solitary Confinement Narrative 187
Ch 11 Justin Marceau, Carceral Logics beyond Incarceration 204

Part III Implications of Carceral Spaces for Animals and for Humans
Introduction Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau 225
Ch 12 Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff, Incarcerating Animals and Egregious Losses of Freedoms 229
Ch 13 Maneesha Deckha, Juvenile Smokescreens: Softening the Harm of Zoos, Aquaria, and Prisons through (Human) Children 238
Ch 14 Karen M Morin, Bovine Lives and the Making of a Nineteenth-Century American Carceral Archipelago 261
Ch 15 Kelly Struthers Montford, Animals in Prison: Collateral Damage and Commodities of “Rehabilitation” 276
Ch 16 David N Pellow, Political Prisoners and the Repression of Animal Liberation and Intersectional Environmental Justice Movements 297

Part IV Challenging Captivity and Changing Carceral Thinking
Introduction Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau 314
Ch 17 Alan K Chen & Vikram David Amar, Cause Lawyering for the Caged: Invisibility, Moral Suasion, and Disenfranchisement in the Prisoners’ Rights and Animal Protection Movements 319
Ch 18 Jessica Eisen, Litigating Animal Captivity: Habeas Corpus in the Carceral State 343
Ch 19 Douglas A Kysar, “True” Imprisonment 366
Ch 20 Will Potter, Imagining Animal Rights as a Civil Rights Movement 384
Ch 21 Lori Gruen, Abolition: Thinking beyond Carceral Logics 417

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Colonialism and Animality: An Introduction Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor, 1

Section I Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms
Ch 1 Billy-Ray Belcourt, An Indigenous Critique of Critical Animal Studies 19
Ch 2 Darren Chang, Tensions in Contemporary Indigenous and Criminal Advocacy Struggle:The Commercial Seal Hunt as a Case Study 29
Ch 3 Claire Jean Kim, Makah Whaling and the (non)ecological Indian 50

Section II Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships with Animals
Ch 4 Margaret Robinson, Veganism and Mi’kmaq Legends 107
Ch 5 Vanessa Watts, Growling Ontologies: Indigeneity, Becoming-souls and Settler Colonial Inaccessibility 115
Ch 6 Kelly Struthers Montford & Chloë Taylor, Beyond Edibility: Towards a Nonspeciesist, Decolonial Food Ontology 129

Section III Cultural Perspectives
Ch 7 Lauren Corman, He(a)rd: Animal Cultures and Anti-colonial Politics 159
Ch 8 Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Dingoes and Dog Whistling: A Cultural Politics of Race and Species in Australia 181
Ch 9 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Haunting Pigs, Wwimming Jaguars: Mourning, Animals and Ayahuasca 201

Section IV Colonialism, Animals, and the Law
Ch 10 Maneesha Deckha, Constitutional Protections for Animals: A Comparative Animal-centred and Postcolonial Reading 219
Ch 11 Kathryn Gillespie, Placing Angola: Racialization, Anthropocentrism, and Settler Colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo 250
Ch 12 Kelly Struthers Montford, Towards a Theory of Multi-species Carcerality 277

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Introduction Charlotte E Blattner, Kendra Coulter & Will Kymlicka , Animal Labour and the Quest for Interspecies Justice 1
Ch 2 Kendra Coulter, Toward Humane Jobs and Work-Lives for Animals 29
Ch 3 Alasdair Cochrane, Good Work for Animals 48
Ch 4 Renée D’Souza, Alice Hovorka & Lee Niel, Conservation Canines: Exploring Dog Roles, Circumstances, and Welfare Status 65
Ch 5 Charlotte E Blattner, Animal Labour: Toward a Prohibition of Forced Labour and a Right to Freely Choose One’s Work 91
Ch 6 Omar Bachour, Alienation and Animal Labour 116
Ch 7 Jessica Eisen, Down on the Farm: Status, Exploitation, and Agricultural Exceptionalism 139
Ch 8 Nicolas Delon, The Meaning of Animal Labour 160
Ch 9 Dinesh J Wadiwel, The Working Day: Animals, Capitalism, and Surplus Time 181
Ch 10 Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka, Animal Labour in a Post-Work Society 207

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Introduction Peter Sankoff, Vaughan Black & Katie Sykes 1
Ch 1 Angus Taylor, Philosophy and the Case for Animals 11
Ch 2 Katie Sykes, Rethinking the Application of Canadian Criminal Law to Factory Farming 33
Ch 3 Vaughan Black, Traff‌ic Tickets on the Last Ride 57
Ch 4 Mary Shariff, A Monkey in the Middle: Ref‌lections on Darwin the Macaque and the (R)evolution of Wild Animals in Canadian Common Law 83
Ch 5 Lesli Bisgould & Peter Sankoff, The Canadian Seal Hunt as Seen in Fraser’s Mirror 105
Ch 6 Cameron Jefferies & Eran Kaplinsky, Municipal Governance and Innovative Shark Conservation Efforts: Problems and Prospects 135
Ch 7 Will Kymlicka & Sue Donaldson, Animal Rights and Aboriginal Rights 159
Ch 8 Constance MacIntosh, Indigenous Rights and Relations with Animals: Seeing beyond Canadian Law 187
Ch 9 Katie Sykes, Joanna Langille & Robert Howse, Whales and Seals and Bears, Oh My! The Evolution of Global Animal Law and Canada’s Ambiguous Stance 209
Ch 10 Maneesha Deckha & Sarah Runyon, Charities, Animals, and Social Change: Charting a More Charitable Approach to Animal Advocacy 239
Ch 11 Camille Labchuk, What Does False Advertising Have to Do with Animal Protection? 277
Ch 12 Sophie Gaillard & Peter Sankoff, Bringing Animal Abusers to Justice Independently: Private Prosecutions and the Enforcement of Canadian Animal Protection Legislation 307