Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani (eds.), The Biopolitical Animal – Edinburgh University Press, November 2024

No description on the EUP website, so here’s the table of contents – shame about the price.

Introduction: What is a Biopolitical Animal? – Felice Cimatti and Carlo Salzani

Part I: The Animal of Biopolitics

Chapter 1: Turning Back to Nature: Foucault and the Practice of Animality – Matthew Calarco

Chapter 2: Community and Animality in the Ancient Cynics – Vanessa Lemm

Chapter 3: Biopolitics of COVID-19 and the Space of Animals: A Planetary Perspective – Miguel Vatter

Chapter 4: How to Chirp like a Cricket: Agamben and the Reversal of Anthropogenesis – Sergei Prozorov

Chapter 5: Animality and Inoperativity: Interspecies Form-of-Life – Sherryl Vint

Part II: Tales of Biopolitics and Animality

Chapter 6: Restraining Biopolitics: On Dino Buzzati’s Living Animals – Timothy Campbell

Chapter 7: Cages and Mirrors: Mr. Palomar and the Albino Gorilla – Serenella Iovino

Chapter 8: Bunnies and Biopolitics: Killing, Culling and Caring for Rabbits – David Redmalm and Erica von Essen

Chapter 9: Deading Life and the Undying Animal: Necropolitics After the Factory Farm – James K. Stanescu

Chapter 10: Factory Farms for Fishes: Aquaculture, Biopolitics and Resistance – Dinesh Wadiwel

Part III: Reconceptualising Biopolitics

Chapter 11: Imagining Liberation beyond Biopolitics: The Biopolitical ‘War against Animals’ and Strategies for Ending It – Zipporah Weisberg

Chapter 12: Animal Magnetism: (Bio)Political Theologies Between the Creature and the Animal – Diego Rossello

Chapter 13: Creaturely Biopolitics – Carlo Salzani

Chapter 14: A Dog’s Life: From the Biopolitical Animal to the Posthuman – Felice Cimatti

Afterword: Locating Race and Animality amidst the Politics of Interspecies Life – Neel Ahuja


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