Animals in Irish society : interspecies oppression and vegan liberation in Britain's first colony /
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline of Anti-speciesism Efforts in Ireland
- Introduction
- The Case for Irish Animal Studies
- Food and Protest
- Irish Animal Rights
- Vegan Intersectionality as a Guiding Perspective
- Critical Animal Studies
- Methodology
- Conclusion
- Chapter 1 Celticism, Christianity, and Animism in Gaelic Ireland
- Relationships with Free-Living Animals
- Relationships with Domesticated Animals
- Precolonial Food Systems
- "Meat"
- Dairy
- Plants, Grains, and Forage
- Food Magic
- The Impact of Christianity on Irish Human-Nonhuman Relationships
- Witches, Faeries, and Other Boundary-Crossers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2 Human and Nonhuman Relationships under British Colonization
- Changing Diets and Identity under Imperialism
- Food for the Empire
- Constructing Racial Difference
- Foodways in Colonial Ireland
- The Problematic Potato
- Animality and the Legacy of Famine
- Contested Humanity in Asylums
- Animalizing the Irish
- The Importation of New Speciesisms
- Irish Breeding
- British Exhibitions
- Sport and Subjugation
- Independence
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Activism for Other Animals in Ireland, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Irish Contributions to the Anti-cruelty Crusade
- Irish Vegetarianism
- Irish Vegetarians Organize
- The Irish Response to Vivisection
- Irish Barbarians in Nineteenth Century America
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 Modern Activism for Other Animals in Ireland
- Irish Veganism of the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Animal Activism and Civil Rights
- Conflicts with Travellers in Settled Ireland
- Animal Nationalism
- Human-Nonhuman Boundaries in Long Kesh
- Anti-speciesist Activism in the Twenty-first Century
- Anti-speciesism and the Irish State
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Nonhuman Animal Welfare and Irish Food Sovereignty
- Feeding Independence
- Ireland Enters the World System
- Loving Ireland, Buying Local
- Greenwashing Speciesism
- Animal Agriculture and Sustainability Politics
- Post-speciesism
- Emerging Vegetarianism and Veganism in Modern Ireland
- Conclusion
- Conclusion Human-Nonhuman Relationships in the Global Era
- Animality in Irish Society
- Entangled Oppressions
- Irish Vegan Ethics
- Looking Forward
- Ireland International
- New Movements
- Final Thoughts
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index