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 animal...

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?.