Animal Oppression and Malev(i)olence

Hunting, Domesecration, Capitalism, and the Deformation of Human Society

David Nibert

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216388579
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Biological Sciences

While the dominant cultural narrative depicts the history of hunting, capturing, and killing of other animals as beneficial for human development, historical and contemporary evidence shows otherwise. This book reveals that the human practice of stalking, killing, exploiting, and eating other animals led to the social construction of a malev(i)olent and predacious form of masculinity and the start of human social stratification and oppression. Thereafter the course of human social development was placed on a deformative trajectory, leading to warfare, the emergence of deadly zoonotic disease, and terrorist-based colonial and imperialist orders. Primarily spread throughout the world by way of European conquests, and leading to the rise of capitalism, hunting and this violent and rapacious form of masculinity is continually promoted as ideal training for warfare and global domination, especially in the United States. As US-driven global violence and destruction accelerates in the 21st century, challenges to this dominant form of masculinity and its caustic capitalist progeny are essential for creating a peaceful and sustainable world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Hunting and the Deformation of Human Society in the Ancient World
• 2 Hunting, “Angling,” and Trapping and Medieval Malev(i)olence
• 3 The Malev(i)olent World Invades the Americas
• 4 Enslaved People, Slain Elephants, and European Hunters Around the World
• 5 Bloodsport, Domesecration, and the Expansion of US Capitalism
• 6 Ideological Scaffolding of Early Twentieth-Century Oppression
• 7 Getting Tough: Malev(i)olence in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
• 8 Malev(i)olence and the Killing of Hope: Vietnam and Beyond
• 9 Malev(i)olent Predation at Home and Abroad
• 10 Malev(i)olence Explodes into the Twenty-First Century
• 11 Malev(i)olence and Twenty-First-Century Destruction and Genocide
• 12 Transcending Malev(i)olent Capitalism
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Copyright