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Animal-Industrial Complex‟ – a Concept & Method for Critical Animal Studies? Richard Twine ISSN: 1948-352X Volume 10 Issue 1 2012 Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X Volume 10 Issue 1 2012 EDITORAL BOARD Dr. Richard J White Chief Editor [email protected] Dr. Nicole Pallotta Associate Editor [email protected] Dr. Lindgren Johnson Associate Editor [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ Laura Shields Associate Editor [email protected] Dr. Susan Thomas Associate Editor [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Richard Twine Book Review Editor [email protected] Vasile Stanescu Book Review Editor [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ Carol Glasser Film Review Editor [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ Adam Weitzenfeld Film Review Editor [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Matthew Cole Web Manager [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD For a complete list of the members of the Editorial Advisory Board please see the Journal for Critical Animal Studies website: http://journal.hamline.edu/index.php/jcas/index 1 Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) JCAS Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 EDITORAL BOARD ............................................................................................................... 1 EDITORIAL Richard J White.......................................................................................................................... 5 ESSAYS Revealing the „Animal-Industrial Complex‟ – A Concept & Method for Critical Animal Studies? Richard Twine .......................................................................................................................... 12 Psychoanalysis & “The Animal”: A reading of the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche Nicholas Ray ............................................................................................................................ 40 The Dialectical Animal: Nature and Philosophy of History in Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse Marco Maurizi ......................................................................................................................... 67 Fishing For Animal Rights In The Cove: A Holistic Approach to Animal Advocacy Documentaries Carrie Packwood Freeman .................................................................................................... 104 From the Mortician‟s Scalpel to the Butcher‟s Knife: Towards an Animal Thanatology Sarah Bezan ........................................................................................................................... 119 POETRY „A Death‟ and „Righteous‟ Alyce Miller ............................................................................................................................ 138 POSTER Queering Veganism: Adventures in Reflexivity Nathan Griffin ........................................................................................................................ 141 INTERVENTION Challenging Whiteness in the Animal Advocacy Movement Anthony J. Nocella II ............................................................................................................. 142 2 Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) INTERVIEW Dr. Kim Socha, author of Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation. Interviewed by Anthony J. Nocella II ..................................................................................... 155 CONFERENCE REVIEW “Eating Meat. The Social Relationship of Humans and Animals and the Meaning of Meat." Conference Organized by the Group for Society and Animals Studies at the University of Hamburg, July 2011 Reviewed by Marcel Sebastian .............................................................................................. 160 The 2nd Annual European Conference for Critical Animal Studies: “Reconfiguring the „Human‟/‟Animal‟ Binary – Resisting Violence” Prague, October 2011 Reviewed by Sonja Buschka ................................................................................................... 163 Conference Proceedings Report: Anarchy and Animal Liberation Workshop Reviewed by Kim Socha ......................................................................................................... 180 FILM REVIEWS Reconsidering Representations: Animals in children‟s films and possibilities for animal advocacy Brian M. Lowe ....................................................................................................................... 186 Rio Reviewed by Carol L. Glasser ............................................................................................... 193 Kung Fu Panda 2 Reviewed by Steve Romanin................................................................................................... 197 Puss in Boots Reviewed by Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart ....................................................................... 200 Rango Reviewed by Ralph Acampora ............................................................................................... 211 Bold Native Reviewed by Adam Weitzenfeld ............................................................................................. 213 3 Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) BOOK REVIEW ESSAY Accounting for the Women of the Animal Rights Movement/ Emily Gaarder (2011) Women and the Animal Rights Movement. Rutgers University Press: London Reviewed by Jessica Gröling ................................................................................................. 219 BOOK REVIEWS Richard Twine (2010) Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies, Earthscan: London Reviewed by Chris Washington ............................................................................................. 230 Lisa Kemmerer (Ed.) (2011) Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice. University of Illinois Press Reviewed by Lindsey McCarthy ............................................................................................. 236 Paul Waldau (2011) Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford University Press: Oxford Reviewed by Carlo Salzani .................................................................................................... 242 A REFLECTION Marti Kheel Richard Twine/ The Editorial Collective ............................................................................... 247 JCAS: AUTHOR GUIDELINES........................................................................................ 248 4 Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) EDITORIAL Richard J White Introduction This is the fourth year that I have been involved with editing the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and it is pleasing to note that this tenure has coincided with a tremendous upsurge of interest in critical animal studies involving an ever broadening range of academic, activist, policy-making and other public communities. I am convinced that the consistently wide- range of deep, stimulating, insightful, and relevant contributions that we have published within the pages of this journal have not only been instrumental in pushing back the boundaries of critical animal studies, but in their considerable educational value and relevance, have helped bring critical animal studies into a more public and mainstream awareness. Earlier this year, this conviction was certainly reinforced from a most unexpected (but welcome) source. On January 2 the New York Times published an article written by James Gorman called ―Animal Studies Cross Campus to Lecture Hall1‖. Following a reference to Derrida's ―The Animal That Therefore I Am‖ the article considers the (critical) overlaps between humans ("previous outsiders") and other animals. It is here that the spotlight of attention is cast in the direction of the journal: The academy does, it seems, recognize and understand Derrida and, sometimes, follow in his word tracks. Consider, for instance, ―Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming- Plant 2 ‖ in a recent issue of The Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Other writing is quite approachable. The moral arguments about eating animals are clear.‖ 1 Gorman, J. (2012) Animal Studies Cross Campus to Lecture Hall, New York Time is available at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/animal-studies-move-from-the-lab-to-the-lecture- hall.html?_r=1&hpw (last accessed 16 January 2012) 2 Houle, L. F. (2011) Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics as Extension or Becoming? The Case of Becoming-Plant, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume IX, Issue 1/2, pp. 89-116. 5 Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2012 (ISSN1948-352X) Let us hope that such a mainstream and popular article, one which at least introduces the complex and uneven (power) relationships that humans impose on other animals, will encourage people to question these/ their human-animal relationships at all times, in all contexts (in places of education, at work, at home and so on). It is also worth noting that this New York Times article is a good reminder that bringing critical animal studies to the attention of a more mainstream, speciesist audience, does not inevitably
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