Sue Coe

Zooicide

Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition

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The issue of zoos is not about treatment, but use; not about reform, but abolition. Zoos often pay lip-service to education, enrichment, and conservation, but the cruelty is systemic and follows from the idea of animals as commodities. As long as they are property, animals will continue to be treated as things, with no rights, who can be caged, bred, abused, or killed for a zoo's profit and the public's entertainment.In Zooicide, Sue Coe applies her bold and breathtaking artistic style to confront the institution of zoos, exposing them as a form of capitalist cruelty that is enmeshed with the violence of war, colonialism, and ecological destr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84935-287-1
EAN: 9781849352871
Produktnummer: 27099979
Verlag: AK Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 84'324 KB
Abbildungen: Black and white illustrations throughout.

Über den Autor

Sue Coe is a visual artist and social critic. Born in England in 1951, she moved to New York in the early 1970s. A firm believer in the power of media to affect change, her paintings, drawing, and prints have been published in The New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone and countless other periodicals. Her other books include How to Commit Suicide in South Africa (1983), X (1986), Dead Meat (1996), Pit's Letter (2000), The Ghosts of our Meat (2013), and The Animals' Vegan Manifesto (2017).