The categories and the types of care we assign are very often tenuous and troubled in nature. The articles in this volume explore some of the intricacy, ambiguity, and even irony in our perceptions and approaches to “multispecies” relations.
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Harriet Ritvo’s article complicates the categorical separation of “wild” and “domesticated” that has organized much Western thought on species distinctions. Ritvo invites us to think beyond the boundaries and fixedness of dominant concepts.
Roger Crisp responds to Dale Jamieson’s views on animal liberation as environmental ethic.
This article argues that a purely rights-based approach to greater consideration of animals is not theoretically or practically sound. It suggests a constrained-utility approach, which is both operational and based on negotiated consensus.
In this editorial, Isis Brook introduces the complex field of ethical thinking about environments and non-human entities.
This film exposes the dangerous environmental practices common in the meat and poultry production industry.
Dale Jamieson discusses animal liberation as an environmental ethic.
Will Gadd hosts this Discovery Channel series exploring the history and formation of some of the Earth’s extreme landscapes.