Animal Justice: Confronting Oppression with an Interspecies Politics of Care (Routledge Studies in Animals, Society and the Environment)

This book argues that the systematic wrongs inflicted on billions of nonhuman animals in industrialised societies are structural injustices, embedded in the institutions, economies, and cultural norms through which human societies organise collective life. Animal Justice analyses the situation of animals not as a problem of inclusion but as one of entrenched hierarchical arrangements that systematically obstruct the conditions necessary for self-development.Through interconnected sites - ableism and capitalist production, migration and border regimes, global commodity chains, and the everyday fabric of multispecies life - the book maps the architecture of interspecies subordination and shows how the oppression of animals is not a parallel injustice to human oppression but structurally entangled with it, produced by the same institutional logics and sustained by the same cultural norms.Against this diagnosis, the book develops an original normative response grounded in care and solidari