This volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines that are affected, enriched or put into dispute by the burgeoning scholarship on Animal Studies.

Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Abjection - Ruth Lipschitz
• 2. Affection - Dominic Pettman
• 3. Animation - Timothy Morton
• 4. The Anthropocene - Kathryn Yusoff and Mary Thomas
• 5. Art - Amanda Boetzkes
• 6. Biopolitics - Rick Elmore
• 7. Capitalism - Nicole Shukin
• 8. Death - Dawne McCance
• 9. Empathy - Kari Weil
• 10. Ethics - Nicole Anderson
• 11. Evolution - Thom van Dooren and Vinciane Despret
• 12. Extinction - Matthew Chrulew and Rick De Vos
• 13. Farming - Henry Buller
• 14. Film - Laura McMahon
• 15. Food - Lindsay Kelley
• 16. Fragility - Claire Colebrook
• 17. Friendship - Johnny Golding
• 18. Genealogies - Matthew Calarco
• 19. Homo Sapiens - David Wood
• 20. Law - Yoriko Otomo
• 21. Literature - Derek Ryan
• 22. Meaning - Wendy Wheeler
• 23. Microbes - Stefan Herbrechter
• 24. Non-human Philosophy - John Ó Maoilearca
• 25. Performance - Undine Sellbach
• 26. Poetics - Aaron Moe
• 27. Posthumanism - Franklin Ginn
• 28. Queer Theory - Carla Freccero
• 29. Races - Christopher Peterson
• 30. Religion - Danielle Sands 
• 31. Revolution - Ron Broglio
• 32. Science Fiction - Sherryl Vint
• 33. Technology - Richard Iveson
• 34. Voice - Lynn Turner
• Afterword: Who Are These Animals I Am Following? - Cary Wolfe
• Notes on Contributors