Animals and War

Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex

Contributions by Ian Smith, Justin Goodman, Raj Ramanathapillai, Shalin Gala, John Sorenson Professor of Sociology, Brock University, Bill Hamilton, Ana Morron, Julie Andrzejewski, Elliot M. Katz, Colman McCarthy Edited by Anthony J. Nocella Fort Lewis College, Colin Salter, Judy K.C. Bentley

Publication date:

13 December 2013

Length of book:

188 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

238x157mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739186510

Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war leading to homelessness, starvation, and death. With leading scholar-activists writing each chapter, this is an important text in the fields of peace studies and critical animal studies. This is a must read for anyone interested in ending war and fostering peace and justice.

Dedication
Foreword, Colman McCarthy
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Military-Animal Industrial Complex, Colin Salter
Chapter One: Animals as Vehicles of War, John Sorenson
Chapter Two: Front Toward Animals: Animal Exploitation in U.S. Military Medical Training Exercises, Justin R. Goodman, Shalin G. Gala, and Ian E. Smith
Chapter Three: Nonhuman Animals as Weapons of War, Ana Paulina Morrón
Chapter Four: War: Animals in the Aftermath, Julie Andrzejewski
Chapter Five: Animals at War, Rajmohan Ramanthapillai
Chapter Six: The Future of War and Animals, Bill Hamilton and Elliot M. Katz
Conclusion: A Critical Animal and Peace Studies argument to ending all wars, Anthony J. Nocella II

In this breakthrough volume, leading animal rights activists and peace anti-war activists shed a crucial light on the important connection between critical animal studies and peace studies. The leading scholar-activists in this volume are at the cutting edge of the struggle to resist the exploitation of nonhuman animals in the military. All social justice educators and activists would do well to read this book!