Zoos
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Zoos

A Philosophical Tour

  1. 183 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Zoos

A Philosophical Tour

About this book

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

  1. Cover
  2. Zoos
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 What does the public find in zoos?
  7. 2 Animals in the wild
  8. 3 ‘Wild animals in captivity’: Is this an oxymoron?
  9. 4 Decontextualised and recontextualised
  10. 5 Lifestyle dislocation and relocation
  11. 6 Suspension of natural evolution
  12. 7 Domestication and immuration
  13. 8 Biotic artefacts
  14. 9 Justifications deemed serious
  15. 10 Justification deemed frivolous
  16. 11 Philosophy and policy
  17. Conclusion
  18. Appendix: Environmental Enrichment or Enrichment
  19. Notes
  20. References and Select Bibliography
  21. Index

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