Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation(8 Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation)

Radial Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation is a scholar-activist book emerging out of the field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS). Radical Animal Studies (RAS) edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and Kim Socha recognizes and values the goal of total liberation and the importance of underground revolutionary direct action. RAS is a complement to, not in conflict with, CAS. Indeed, RAS is dedicated to two of the ten CAS principles: seven (total liberation) and nine (radical politics and strategies). This book is an essential read for social justice community organizers, animal liberation activists, and intersectional total liberation scholars.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements – David Naguib Pellow: Foreword: Burn, Baby(lon), Burn – Aaron Zellhoefer: Preface: Radicals Help Make It Practical – Kim Socha and Anthony J. Nocella II: Introduction: Outside the Realm of Negotiation: From Underground to Battleground – Kim Socha: Make- Believe Revolutions Make Make- Believe Revolutionaries – Will Boisseau: Listening to and Learning from Leftist Critiques of Animal Liberation – Erika Cudworth and Richard J. White: Bringing Down the Animal Abuse Industry by Any MeansNecessary: State- corporate- media Alliance and the Fear of Counter- cultural Intervention – Kyle Ramsey- Sumner and Piper Ramsey- Sumner: Radicalizing Animal Theology: Moving toward a Revolutionary Praxis – Michael Loadenthal: Days of War, Knights of Tempeh: Anarchism, Animal Liberation & Social War – Index.

About the Author :
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., international total liberation scholar-activist, is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Salt Lake Community College, Director of Save the Kids, and Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. He had published over forty books and co-founded six journals and five book series. Kim Socha, Ph.D., is author of Animal Liberation and Atheism: Dismantling the Procrustean Bed and is employed as a social emergency response worker for those facing family violence, housing instability, addiction, and mental health crises.

Review :
“This book is so fundamentally necessary in a time in which diversity politics is conflated with transformation.” —Marisol Burgueno, Poetry Behind the Walls “This timely book offers up important insights, distinctions, and analyses for the theory and practice for animal liberation, but also for social movements in general. Anyone serious about radical social change should read and discuss this book. It will improve your push for a better world!” —Jason Del Gandio, Author, Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists “In recent years, the importance of social movements has become more of an important part of advancing critical animal studies toward what Socha and Nocella propose as radical animal studies. Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation offers a timely collection of thoughtful essays that center diversity in activist-scholarship and teach of the importance of radical theory and action through (and with) social movements that include animal liberation together with social justice.” —Johnny Lupinacci, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education, Washington State University “This important book affords animal liberation scholars and activists an opportunity to move beyond traditional liberal conceptions of animal rights theory and practice. Readers will learn how ‘radical’ and ‘radicalism’ are not dirty words, but rather essential means through which to achieve the total liberation of species. It should be considered an essential reading in critical animal studies.” —S. Marek Muller, Florida Atlantic University; Author, Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law “Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation continues radical pedagogy that exceeds like no other. The book seeped in all genres of liberation is needed in classrooms to help student and teacher activists create needed change outside the classroom.” —Lucas Alan, Researcher, Dietsche-University of Wisconsin-Platteville “Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation takes the time to reflect on the personal stories of this liberation movement. Without these reflections and stories we end up glossing over and ignoring the pain, the anger, and potentially the most important part, being able to truly see each other in this struggle.” —Jason Bayless, Author, A Radical Guide, www.radical-guide.com “Radical Animal Studies: Beyond Respectability Politics, Opportunism, and Cooptation is an amazing scholarly book that puts everything in perspective. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to grasp why animal rights are so important and the protection of them so paramount; this is a must read for anyone interested in social justice, animal advocacy, and total liberation.” —Alisha Page, Director, Save the Kids “I would recommend this book to any individual who is willing to candidly reflect on their role as accomplices in perpetuating predatory capitalism and their urgent need to subvert the violence of neoliberalism and its trajectory towards appropriation.” —Arash Daneshzadeh, Editor, Transformative Justice Journal