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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