Arguments about animal ethics / edited by Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black.

ISBN:

9780739143001

9780739142981

Title:

Arguments about animal ethics / edited by Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black.

Author:

Goodale, Greg, 1966-

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 256 pages)

Contents:

Rhetoric and "animals" : a long history and brief introduction / Greg Goodale and Jason Edward Black -- Part I: Rhetorical theory at the human/nonhuman animal boundary -- Embracing humanimality : deconstructing the human/animal dichotomy / Carrie Packwood Freeman -- How to do things without words : whisperers as rustic authorities on interspecies dialogue / Mary Trachsel -- The battle within : understanding the persuasive affect of internal rhetorics in the ethical vegetarian/vegan movement / Patricia Malesh -- Part II: Critiques of animal ethics rhetoric -- I'm too sexy for your movement : an analysis of the failure of the animal rights movement to promote vegetarianism / Laura K. Hahn -- PETA and the rhetoric of nude protest / Brett Lunceford -- Biting back at the empire : the anti-greyhound racing movement's decolonizing rhetoric as a countermand to the dog-racing industry / Jason Edward Black -- Part III: Critiques of animal management rhetoric -- The biomedical research industry and the end of scientific revolutions / Greg Goodale -- Protection from "animal rights lunatics" : the center for consumer freedom and animal rights rhetoric / Wendy Atkins-Sayre -- Whale wars and the public screen: mediating animal ethics in violent times / Richard D. Besel and Renee S. Besel -- Part IV: A critique of animal ethics and animal management rhetoric -- Feral horses : logos, pathos and the definition of Christian dominion / Jane Bloodworth Rowe and Sabrina Marsh.

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Subject Term:

Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal rights.

NATURE -- Animal Rights.

Animal rights. (OCoLC)fst00809364

Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst00809443

Tierethik.

Added Author:

Goodale, Greg, 1966-

Black, Jason Edward.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=332610

Publication Date:

2010

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Summary

Bringing together the expertise of rhetoricians in English and communication as well as media studies scholars, Arguments about Animal Ethics delves into the rhetorical and discursive practices of participants in controversies over the use of nonhuman animals for meat, entertainment, fur, and vivisection. Both sides of the debate are carefully analyzed, as the contributors examine how stakeholders persuade or fail to persuade audiences about the ethics of animal rights or the value of using animals. The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics, such as the campaigns waged by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (including the sexy vegetarian and nude campaigns), greyhound activists, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, food manufacturers, and the biomedical research industry, as well as communication across the human-nonhuman animal boundary and the failure of the animal rights movement to protest research into genetically modifying living beings. Arguments about Animal Ethics' insightful analysis of the animal rights movement will appeal to communication scholars, as well as those interested in social change.

Author Notes

Greg Goodale is assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. Jason Edward Black is assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Alabama.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

In putting together this book, Goodale (Univ. of Virginia School of Law) and Black (rhetorical and cultural studies, Univ. of Alabama) did not take a neutral stand. Focusing on rhetorical aspects of arguments surrounding animal ethics, all the essays support animal rights broadly speaking. Some contributors openly state their positions; others present analyses advancing that cause. Although several essays are critical of the rhetoric of such animal-rights organizations as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, those critiques focus on how that rhetoric fails to advance the organizations' causes--and advancing those causes is clearly this book's aim. Such partisanship is not in itself bad, but the book's title is misleading in implying a consideration of alternative views. To be fair, one finds here some discussion of the rhetoric on the other side of the issue, but that discussion is always undertaken from the viewpoint of animal rights. The difficulty of the essays varies; the collection offers everything from a deconstructive analysis of "the human/animal dichotomy" to a critical study of the reality television show Whale Wars. The quality of analysis also fluctuates; one contributor advocates anthropomorphizing animals as a means of advocacy but ignores the pitfalls of such an approach. Summing Up: Recommended. Optional. Graduate students, researchers, professionals. W. Ouderkirk SUNY Empire State College