Crisis animal

The authors of this book offer a response of crucial importance and urgency to a series of problems generated by our current systems of thought and organization, which are not only failing with respect to the care and protection of animals, but also of human beings. . In the current context of new pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction and climate change, Alice Crary and Lori Gruen call for addressing without delay the complex challenges that lie ahead of us, starting from the premise that it is necessary to completely rethink the relationships we have established with the rest of the animals and our natural environment. Thus, drawing on strong currents such as ecofeminism and distancing itself from traditional theories in the field of animal ethics, which start from an abstraction of social logics that are harmful to human beings, "Animal Crisis" proposes a critical animalism to identify and combat the structural pressures that lead to the harm of so many in order to achieve the unstable and fragile benefit of a few.