Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the AnthropoceneWendy A. Wiseman, Burak Kesgin The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death of industrial animal agriculture. Both forms of anthropogenic violence against animals cast the Anthropocene as an era of criminality and loss driven by boundless human exceptionalism, forcing a reckoning with and an urgent reimagining of human-animal relations. Without the sleights of hand that would lump “humanity” into a singular Anthropos of the Anthropocene, the authors recognize the differential nature of human impacts on animal life and the biosphere as a whole, while affirming the complexity of animal worlds and their profound imbrications in human cultures, societies, and industries. Confronting the reality of the Sixth Mass Extinction and mass animal death requires forms of narrativity that draw on traditional genres and disciplines, while signaling a radical break with modern temporalities and norms. Chapters in this volume reflect this challenge, while embodying the interdisciplinary nature of inquiry into non-human animality at the edge of the abyss—historiography, cultural anthropology, post-colonial studies, literary criticism, critical animal studies, ethics, religious studies, Anthropocene studies, and extinction studies entwine to illuminate what is arguably the greatest crisis, for all creatures, in the past 65 million years. |
Contents
Genocide | 31 |
Wildlife | 59 |
The Rise and Fall of | 87 |
Storytelling | 125 |
Restorying Land Use Governance | 151 |
HumanMonarch | 185 |
Jews and Chickens in the Era | 215 |
The History of Global | 239 |
Chimpanzee Expatriated to | 267 |
Anthropodicy | 281 |
Pedagogies | 303 |
About the Contributors | 325 |
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