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The Capitalist Commodification of Animals

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Research in Political Economy

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Paul Zarembka

State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Editorial Board

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Research in Political Economy Volume 35

The Capitalist Commodification of Animals

Edited by

Brett Clark

Professor of Sociology, University of Utah, USA

Tamar Diana Wilson

Independent Scholar, Mexico

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About the Contributors

Paula Brügger is a Professor in the Ecology and Zoology Department of Santa Catarina Federal University, Brazil, where she also coordinates the Ecological Justice Observatory. She has published two books on environmental education. Her research investigates the ethical/epistemological implications of mechanistic paradigms in sustainability and animal rights.

Brett Clark is Professor of Sociology, Environmental Humanities, and Environmental and Sustainability Studies at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the political economy of global environmental change. He is the author of several books, including The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift.

Brynna Jacobson received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego. She teaches Sociology as an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on the politics of geoengineering and climate change.

Cade Jameson received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Oregon. He resides in Hilo, Hawaii, and teaches at Hawaii Community College. His research focuses on the politics of land-use planning and the history of the US conservation movement.

Wolfgang Leyk is a Lutheran Pastor and University Lecturer in Erlangen for the Chair of Ethics. He specializes in animal and economic ethics. His research focuses on problems associated with industrial animal husbandry and on the true costs of animal products.

Agustín Santella is a Researcher at CONICET and a Graduate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He investigates class struggle, collective action, and Marxist theory. He is the author of Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony: The Auto-Industry in Argentina (Brill, 2016).

Alexander Simon teaches courses in the Environmental Studies Department and the Sociology Program. His teaching interests include environmental sociology, animals and society, and social theory. His current research focuses on the political economy of wolf reintroduction programs.

Christian Stache earned his PhD in social and economic history from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of Kapitalismus und Naturzerstörung. Zur kritischen Theorie des gesellschaftlichen Naturverhältnisses (Budrich UniPress, 2017). His fields of work are Marxism, ecology, and critical human–animal studies.

Charles Thorpe is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and Necroculture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Tamar Diana Wilson has researched and published mainly on the topics of internal and international Mexican migration and on the informal economy/precarious work. Her focus has been primarily on the marginalized and the oppressed, which has led to her interest in the commodification and exploitation of animals.

Acknowledgments

We thank all of the contributors to this volume for their thoughtful contributions and all of those who reviewed the manuscripts and provided helpful feedback. A special thanks goes to Paul Zarembka for his support, guidance, and encouragement.