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In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, 'what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being?' This ontological treatment marks the first such approach in looking at animals in captivity. Engaging with the moral questions of zoo-keeping (is it morally justified to keep a wild animal in captivity?) as well as the ontological (what is it that we conserve in zoos after all? A wild animal or its shadow?), Lee develops her own original hypothesis, centred around the concept of 'immuration' - defining this in contrast to domestication - and thereby provides a unique addition to the growing body of work on animal ethics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Zoos
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 What does the public find in zoos?
- 2 Animals in the wild
- 3 ‘Wild animals in captivity’: Is this an oxymoron?
- 4 Decontextualised and recontextualised
- 5 Lifestyle dislocation and relocation
- 6 Suspension of natural evolution
- 7 Domestication and immuration
- 8 Biotic artefacts
- 9 Justifications deemed serious
- 10 Justification deemed frivolous
- 11 Philosophy and policy
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Environmental Enrichment or Enrichment
- Notes
- References and Select Bibliography
- Index
