Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial

Averting Our Gaze

Tomaž Grušovnik, Reingard Spannring, Karen Lykke Syse

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2020
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781793610478
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The staggering rate of environmental pollution and animal abuse despite constant efforts to educate the public and raise awareness challenges the prevailing belief that the absence of serious action is a consequence of a poorly informed public. In recent decades alternative explanations of social and political inaction have emerged, including denialism. Challenging the information-deficit model, denialism proposes that people actively avoid unpleasant information that threatens their established worldviews, lifestyles, and identities. Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze analyzes how people avoid awareness of climate change, environmental pollution, animal abuse, and the animal industrial complex. The contributors examine the theory of denialism in regards to environmental pollution and animal abuse through a range of disciplines, including social psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural history and law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Denialism in Environmental and Animal Abuse
• 1 From Denial to Moral Disengagement: How Integrating Fundamental  Insights from Psychology Can Help Us Better  Understand  Ongoing Inaction in the Light of an Exacerbating  Climate Crisis
• 2 Denial as a Sense of Entitlement: Assessing the Role of Culture
• 3 Skepticism and Animal Virtues: Denialism of Animal Morality
• 4 Human Uniqueness, Animal Minds, and Anthropodenial
• 5 Suffering Animals: Creaturely Fellowship and Its Denial
• 6 Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices
• 7 The Animal That Therefore Was Removed from View: The  Presentation of Meat in Norway, 1950–2015
• 8 Political Economy of Denialism: Addressing the Case of Animal  Agriculture
• 9 Celebrate the Anthropocene? Why “Techno-Eco-Optimism” Is  a  Strategy of Ultimate Denial
• 10 The Horse in the Room: The Denial of Animal Subjectivity and  Agency in Social Science Research on Human–Horse Relationships
• 11 Still in the Shadow of Man? Judicial Denialism and Nonhuman  Animals
• Index
• About the Contributors