Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC).The A-IC is a useful framework for understanding how exploitative human-animal relations are central to capitalist relations and profit accumulation. ‘A-IC-related-violence’ - killing animals for economic gain - has a ripple effect which results in profound consequences for humans as well. This collection of international scholarship explores topics as varied as how A-IC-related-violence is reproduced and sustained through rapidly changing discursive strategies, ideological architecture, and particular cultural forms that elide and legitimize animal cruelty.Several chapters expose collusion between governments, corporations, and academia as central to maintaining dominance of A-IC-related-violence.Other scholars explore the trouble with making the conditions of “meat” production visible - of de-fetishizing meat commodities.The scholarship critically expl