In the years since publication of the first edition of this book, the field of HAS has exploded.
There are now more courses offered at more colleges and universities than ever before …

It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer
gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they …

What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories
about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of …

Phylogeography and zooarchaeology are largely separate disciplines, yet each interrogates
relationships between humans and commensal species. Knowledge gained about human …

Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed
response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans …

People have obligations to ensure the welfare of animals under their care. Offences under
the UK Animal Welfare Act are acts, or failures of action, causing unnecessary suffering …

The Russian conquest of Siberia was an event of which the consequences have only slowly
become apparent. Already great, they may come to dominate much of our world; with today's …

This paper uses the figure of the inbred laboratory mouse to reflect upon the management
and mobilization of biological difference in the contemporary biosciences. Working through …

The analysis of past epidemics and pandemics, either spontaneous or of human origin, may
revise the physical history of microbiota and create a temporal context in our understanding …

This paper argues for attention to place dialogue, rethinking how place meanings emerge
through interactions between human agency and the nonhuman agency of place. To speak …