1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255346803321

Autore

McMullen Steven

Titolo

Animals and the Economy / / by Steven McMullen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137434746

1137434740

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 216 p.)

Collana

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, , 2634-6680

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Agriculture

Applied ethics

Business ethics

Philosophy and social sciences

Social sciences - Philosophy

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Agricultural Ethics

Business Ethics

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Social Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The place of animals in the economy -- Chapter 2: The Ethical Logic of Economics -- Chapter 3: Giving Consumers what they want?  -- Chapter 4: Ethical Consumer Action -- Chapter 5: Competition and Moral Complicity -- Chapter 6: Regulating Animal Use -- Chapter 7: Animal Experimentation -- Chapter 8: Property rights and animal rights -- Chapter 9: Ownership and Animal Oppression -- Chapter 10: A new kind of ownership -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the economic institutions that determine the nature of animal lives as systematically exploited objects traded in a market economy. It examines human roles and choice in the system, including



the economic logic of agriculture, experimentation, and animal ownership, and analyses the marginalization of ethical action in the economic system. Animals and the Economy demonstrates that individual consumers and farmers are often left with few truly animal-friendly choices. Ethical participants in the economy must either face down an array of institutional barriers, or exit mainstream markets entirely. This book argues that these issues are not necessary elements of a market system, and evaluates a number of policy changes that could improve the lives of animals in the context of a market economy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910553083303321

Autore

Sawallisch Nele <p>Nele Sawallisch, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland </p>

Titolo

Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century / Nele Sawallisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2018

ISBN

9783839445020

3839445027

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages)

Collana

American Culture Studies

Classificazione

HQ 4045

Disciplina

810.9/896071

Soggetti

Black Canada

19th Century

Slave Narrative

Life Writing

Borders

Literary History

Literature

America

Cultural History

American Studies

Migration

Literary Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Acknowledgments    7 Introduction    9 1. Fugitive Borders    13 2. Religion    35 3. Radicalism    59 4. Heroism    101 5. Community    151 Conclusion    199 Bibliography    205

Sommario/riassunto

Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.

»›Fugitive Borders‹ shows how Black cross-border life writing at midnineteenth century speaks of the history of slavery and the experiences of the formerly enslaved and fugitive with idiosyncratic voices. Undoubtedly, readers of ›Fugitive Borders‹ will want to hear, understand, and learn more from them.«