Reading List: Lives of Animals

David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.

David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.

Alberto Acosta, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Ashish Kothari, and Federico DeMaria (ed.), Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2019.

Carol J. Adams, Burger, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Carol J. Adams, Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals, New York: Continuum, 1994.

Carol J. Adams, The Pornography of Meat: New and Updated Edition, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Carol J. Adams, Alice Crary, and Lori Gruen (ed.), The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

Carol J. Adams, Lori Gruen, and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (ed.), Animaladies: Gender, Animals, and Madness, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.

Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh (ed.), Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

Antonia Baehr, Abecedarium Bestiarium, Nyon: Far° festival et fabrique des arts vivants & make up productions, 2014.

Jonathan Balcombe, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Éric Baratay, Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2022.

Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, a John Hope Franklin Center Book, Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

Amanda Boetzkes, The Ethics of Earth Art, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Murray Bookchin, The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism, Oakland: AK Press, 2022.

Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dünkel, and Birgit Schneider, The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Stephen Budiansky, If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness, New York: Free Press, 2015.

Rachel Carson, Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, Boston: Beacon Press, 1999, Reprint, 2011.

Rachel Carson and Conor Mark Jameson (ed.), Silent Spring Revisited, London: A&C Black, 2012.

Sue Coe, The Animals' Vegan Manifesto, New York: OR Books, 2016.

Sue Coe, Dead Meat, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

Sue Coe, Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012.

Sue Coe, Pit's Letter, Philadelphia: Running Press, 2000.

Sue Coe, Zoocide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition, Oakland: AK Press, 2018.

J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, United Kingdom: Vintage Publishing, 2000.

David Colosi, A Confluence of Snails, Brooklyn: Open Source Gallery, 2023.

Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin (ed.), Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies, London: Open Humanities Press, 2015.

Darcie DeAngelo, ‘How to Love a Rat: Detecting Bombs in Postwar Cambodia’, Vol. 17 of Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2024.

Midas Dekkers, Dearest Pet: On Bestiality (trans. David McKay), New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996.

Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Philippe Descola, The Ecology of Others, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2013.

Philippe Descola and Gisli Palsson (ed.), Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, London: Routledge, 1996.

Vinciane Despret, What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am, New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Frans De Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, London: Granta Books, 2017.

Frans De Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

Frans De Waal, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.

Frans De Waal, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Karen L. Edwards, Derek Ryan, and Jane Spencer (ed.), Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern, New York: Routledge, 2019.

Tim Flannery, A Warning from the Golden Toad, London: Penguin Books, 2021.

Elisabeth de Fontenay, Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Gary L. Francione and Anna Charlton, Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach, Brooklyn: Lantern Books, 2015.

Adrian Franklin, Animals and Modern Cultures: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity, London: Sage, 1999.

Peter Godfrey-Smith, Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness, London: William Collins, 2021.

Erica Fudge, Pets, London: Routledge, 2008.

Erica Fudge, Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern English Culture, University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Erica Fudge, Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Erica Fudge, Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, New York: Penguin Group, 2021.

Carol Gigliotti, The Creative Lives of Animals, New York: NYU Press, 2022.

John K. Grande, Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews With Environmental Artists, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.

John K. Grande, Balance: Art and Nature, Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1995.

Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, New York: Scribner, 2005.

Donald R. Griffin, Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Shaun Grindell and Matthieu Ricard, A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion, Boston: Shambhala, 2018.

Lori Gruen, The Ethics of Captivity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Lori Gruen, Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals, New York: Lantern Books, 2015.

Lori Gruen, Ethics and Animals: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Katja M. Guenther, The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Fallen Animals: Art, Religion, Literature, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.

Benjamin Hale, Andrew Light, and Lydia Lawhon (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics, New York: Routledge, 2022.

Byung-Chul Han, Capitalism and the Death Drive, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021.

Vernon N. Kisling (ed.), Zoo and Aquarium History: Ancient Animal Collections to Zoological Gardens, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2001.

Donna J. Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.

Donna J. Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Donna J. Haraway, When Species Meet, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

James Hillman, Animal Presences, TX: Spring Publications, Inc., 2012.

Jessica L. Horton, Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation, New York: Art History Publication Initiative, 2017.

Tim Ingold, Imagining for Real: Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence, New York: Routledge, 2021.

Hilda Kean, The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy, London: Verso, 2009.

Franz Kafka, A Report for an Academy, Scotts Valley: CreateSpace, 2013.

Barbara J. King, Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species, London: Penguin Books, 2021.

Aph Ko, Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out, Brooklyn: Lantern Books, 2019.

Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, New York: Picador, Henry Holt and Co., 2015.

Helga Kuhse, Udo Schüklenk, and Peter Singer (ed.), Bioethics: An Anthology, Hoboken: NJ, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

John Cunningham Lilly, The Mind of the Dolphin: A Nonhuman Intelligence, New York: Avon Books, 1969.

Jamie Lorimer, Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.

Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age, Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

Richard Louv, Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives―and Save Theirs, New York: Algonquin Books, 2020.

Peter R. Marler, Nature's Music: The Science of Birdsong, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2004.

Eva Meijer, When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy, New York: NYU Press, 2019.

Ken Midkiff, The Meat You Eat: How Corporate Farming Has Endangered America's Food Supply, Foreword by Wendell Berry, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Malcolm Miles, T. J. Demos, and Jillian Mayer (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change, New York: Routledge, 2021.

Ian Jared Miller, The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

George Monbiot, How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature, London: Verso, 2016.

George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, London: Penguin Books, 2022.

Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, New York: Scribner, 2022.

Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, New York: Washington Square Press, 2016.

Anthony J. Nocella II, and Amber E George (ed.), Intersectionality of Critical Animal Studies: A Historical Collection, New York: Peter Lang, 2019.

Dale Peterson, The Moral Lives of Animals, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.

Filipa Ramos (ed.), Documents of Contemporary Art: Animals, London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2016.

Harriet Ritvo, The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination, Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Harriet Ritvo, Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History, Harvard University Press, 2010.

Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, Penguin Books, 1989.

Richard D Ryder, Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the 21st Century, Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2011.

Annabelle Sabloff, Reordering the Natural World: Humans and Animals in the City, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.

Matthias Schmelzer, The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.

Vandana Shiva, Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth, Rochester, VT: Synergetic Press, 2020.

Vandana Shiva, Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology, Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2016.

Peter Singer, Animal Liberation, London: Bodley Head, 2015.

Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Learning from a Tube of Toothpaste, New York: Prometheus Books, 2019.

Peter Singer, Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically, New York: Liveright, 2020.

Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, Drucilla Cornell, Julian H Franklin, Heather M Kendrick, Eduardo Mendieta, Andrew Linzey, Paola Cavalieri, and Rod Preece (ed.), Strangers to Nature, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher, New York: Bantam Books, 1980.

Ashley Ward, The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World, London: Profile Books, 2022.

Bill Wasik, and Monica Murphy, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus, New York: Penguin Books, 2013.

Kari Weil, Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.

Linda Weintraub, To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Edward O. Wilson, and Bert Hölldobler, Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1994.

Cary Wolfe, What Is Posthumanism?, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Cary Wolfe (ed.), Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Yong (ed.), An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, New York: Random House, 2023.

Yong (ed.), I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, New York: Ecco, 2016.