Animals in Our Midst.

• Superior document: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics ; v.33
• Author: Bovenkerk, Bernice.
• TeilnehmendeR: Keulartz, Jozef.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (574 pages)

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 animals under Anthropocene conditions needs to be approached from a multitude of angles. This book offers the reader insight into the different discussions that exist around the topics of how we should understand animal agency, how we could take animal agency seriously in farms, urban areas and the wild, and what technologies are appropriate and morally desirable to use regarding animals. This book is of interest to both animal studies scholars and environmental ethics scholars, as well as to practitioners working with animals, such as wildlife managers, zookeepers, and conservation biologists.

Table of Contents

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?.