Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

David Alan Nibert

Rowman & Littlefield, Jan 1, 2002 - Nature - 269 pages

This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western "civilization," one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues persuasively that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand in hand with the oppression of women, people of color, and other oppressed groups. He maintains that the oppression both of humans and of other species of animals is inextricably tangled within the structure of social arrangements. Nibert asserts that human use and mistreatment of other animals are not natural and do little to further the human condition. Nibert's analysis emphasizes the economic and elite-driven character of prejudice, discrimination, and institutionalized repression of humans and other animals. His examination of the economic entanglements of the oppression of human and other animals is supplemented with an analysis of ideological forces and the use of state power in this sociological expose of the grotesque uses of the oppressed, past and present. Nibert suggests that the liberation of devalued groups of humans is unlikely in a world that uses other animals as fodder for the continual growth and expansion of transnational corporations and, conversely, that animal liberation cannot take place when humans continue to be exploited and oppressed.

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User Review  - Emily Christy - Goodreads

This book was extremely educational and eye-opening, and it made quite an impact on me. I have taken three university courses from David Nibert, and found him to be a very intelligent and passionate ...

Review: Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

User Review  - Miroku Nemeth - Goodreads

One of the most amazingly comprehensive and compassionate books I have ever read on the reality of systems of oppression.

Contents

• Toward a Sociological Analysis of Animal Oppression: 1
• Economic Basis of Animal Oppression: 21
• Capitalist Expansion and Oppression: 56
• The Growth of Agribusiness and Global Oppression: 101
• Oppression and the Capitalist State: 142
• The Social Construction of Speciesist Reality: 195
• Toward a United Struggle against Oppression: 236
• Index: 257
• About the Author: 269

About the author

David Nibert is a former tenant organizer and community activist who is now associate professor of sociology at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He is author of Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: State Governments and the Taxing of Dreams (Monthly Review Press, 2000) and articles in such journals as Critical Sociology, Society & Animals, and Race, Gender & Class.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation; Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Author: David Alan Nibert
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
• ISBN: 0742517764, 9780742517769
• Length: 269 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animal Rights; Political Science / Human Rights; Social Science / Sociology / General