{"product_id":"9781439914120","title":"The Next Social Contract : Animals, the Anthropocene, and Biopolitics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his provocative book The Next Social Contract, Wayne Gabardi rigorously considers the fate of animals in the twenty-first century. He claims that if we are to address the challenges raised by the Anthropocene-the period where nonhuman beings tend to be mere extras, often subsumed under the umbrella notion of \"nature\"-we need to radically rethink our basic ethical outlook and develop a new, \"more-than-human\" social contract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGabardi's wide-ranging and multidisciplinary analysis focuses on four principal battlegrounds of animal biopolitics in the twenty first century: the extinction of wild animals, the crisis of oceanic animals, industrialized farm animals and the future of industrial agribusiness, and the situation of contact-zone animals moving into human-occupied habitats. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his recasting of the social contract, Gabardi envisions a culture shift in human-animal relations toward posthumanism that features the ethical and political prioritization of animal life so it is on par with that of human well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48945248370923,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":64.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781439914120","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}