{"product_id":"the-next-social-contract-animals-the-anthropocene-and-biopolitics-9781439914120","title":"The Next Social Contract: Animals, the Anthropocene, and Biopolitics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Wayne Gabardi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Animals - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his provocative book \u003ci\u003eThe Next Social Contract, \u003c\/i\u003e Wayne Gabardi rigorously considers the fate of animals in the twenty-first century. He claims that if we are to address the challenges raised by the Anthropocene-the period where nonhuman beings tend to be mere extras, often subsumed under the umbrella notion of \"nature\"-we need to radically rethink our basic ethical outlook and develop a new, \"more-than-human\" social contract.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGabardi's wide-ranging and multidisciplinary analysis focuses on four principal battlegrounds of animal biopolitics in the twenty first century: the extinction of wild animals, the crisis of oceanic animals, industrialized farm animals and the future of industrial agribusiness, and the situation of contact-zone animals moving into human-occupied habitats. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his recasting of the social contract, Gabardi envisions a culture shift in human-animal relations toward posthumanism that features the ethical and political prioritization of animal life so it is on par with that of human well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46475290149015,"sku":"9781439914120","price":3239.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781439914120.jpg?v=1766272899","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-next-social-contract-animals-the-anthropocene-and-biopolitics-9781439914120","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}