Ecological Ethics and Animal Conservation: An Unwritten Chapter The authority of the information and perspectives of this article rest in the experience and positions held by the author of these articles, Ben A. Minteer and James P. Collins. Mr. Minteer is actively involved with environmental ethics as well as conservation and is chair of life… Read more Ecological Ethics and Animal Conservation: An Unwritten Chapter
The Equal Rights Group Simon Pooley, 2013, ‘No Tears for the Crocodile: investigating calls for the extermination of the Nile crocodile in Zuzuland, South Africa, to c.1958’, chapter 6 in W. Beinart, K. Middleton, S. Pooley (ed.s), Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination (White Horse Press), pp. 142-162. About the Author: Dr. Simon… Read more No Tears for the Crocodiles
Written by: Achu Balasubramanian, Saniya Syeda, Mackenzie Warren, Claire Lungwitz Miller, Ian Jared. The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo. University of California Press, 2013. The author of The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo, Ian Jared Miller, is a historian of Japan and… Read more An Analysis of the Natural and Societal Impacts Caused by Japan’s Ueno Zoo
Following our discussion on the role of zoos in global conservation efforts, here a couple of recently published articles addressing the issue. Considering that conservation only became a goal and an argument recently in the history of Zoos, here some insights from the articles: -The limited scope of the conservation efforts -The increasing participation of… Read more Zoos and Biodiversity Conservation
Erasing the Past The author, Zeb Tortorici, an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese language and literature at New York University, traces the history, or lack thereof in New Spain throughout the 1500s to 1800s. This work, published by the Duke Press at Duke University, comments on the prosecution of heinous sexual acts of… Read more Erasing the Past
Written by: Achu Balasubramanian, Saniya Syeda, Mackenzie Warren, Claire Lungwitz “Chapter 5: Man’s Dominion.” Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer, HarperCollins, 1975. The author of Animal Liberation, Peter Singer, is an Australian moral philosopher. Having worked in institutions like Oxford and Princeton, Singer is a highly reputed philosopher in applied ethics and uses his knowledge to… Read more The Effects of Speciesism on Western Culture Through the Rise of Christianity
Group Report 1: Brittany Jette, Giahuy Lenguyen, Kaustubh Pandit, Rachael Zmich Anker, Peder. “A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes.” Philosophy & Geography, vol. 7, no. 2, 2004, pp. 259–264., doi:10.1080/1090377042000285462. The title of the piece that was read is “A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes” by Peder Anker. Professor Peder… Read more The Rights of Humans, Animals, and Vegetables: Joke or Global Issue?
Boggs, Carl. “Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal Rights.” Critical Theory and Animal Liberation, by John Sanbonmatsu, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. A political scientist who earned his Ph.D. at the UCal, Berkeley, Boggs has spent many years in the field. He is the author of more than twenty books, ranging in topics from… Read more Corporate Power, Ecological Crisis, and Animal Rights