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2018_Book_MurderingAnimals.pdf

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1|Foreword|6
1|Acknowledgments|10
1|Contents|12
1|Notes on Contributors|15
1|List of Figures and Table|16
1|1: Introduction: Rights for Whom?|19
2|This Book|22
2|Being Language Animals|28
1|2: Theriocide and Homicide|30
2|Killing Sites: Words and Things|31
2|Killing at a Distance|35
2|Killing Euphemisms|37
2|Homicide and Theriocide|39
2|The Concept of Theriocide|40
3|Etymology|41
2|Scope|42
2|Intersections|50
2|Discussion|51
2|Post Mortem|53
2|Bibliography|59
1|3: Hunting Worlds Turned Upside Down? Paulus Potter’s Life of a Hunter|66
2|An Unlikely Tale|68
2|A Satire on Early Modern Animal Trials?|72
2|Art and Politics|75
2|Hunting Worlds Upside Down|77
2|Against Animal Cruelty: Montaigne, Potter and Life of a Hunter|79
2|Bibliography|84
1|4: On the Geohistory of Justiciable Animals: Was Britain a Deviant Case?|87
2|Rendering Animals Justiciable|90
2|On the Geohistory of Justiciable Animals|101
2|The British Law of Deodands|109
2|In Search of Animal Trials in Britain|113
3|The Trial of a Dog in Sixteenth-century Scotland|114
3|The Trial of a Cock in Nineteenth-century Leeds|116
3|The Trial of Farmer Carter’s Dog in Chichester, 1771|117
2|Animal Trials and Other Tribulations: Against Speciesist Justice|125
2|Appendix 1: Animals and Crime in Lombrosian Criminal Anthropology|128
2|Bibliography|144
1|5: Hogarth’s Patriotic Animals: Bulldogs, Beef, Britannia!|151
2|Let Slip the Dogs of War!|153
2|Beef and Liberty! Hogarth’s Consuming Passions|158
2|After Hogarth|171
2|Iconography: Hogarth|173
2|Bibliography|178
1|6: Gallous Stories or Dirty Deeds? Representing Parricide in J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World|181
2|Preamble|181
2|Murder and Mayhem in Three Acts: Synopsis|182
2|Riot Revisited|186
2|Playboys and Parricides|189
3|The ‘Aran Case’: William Maley’s Parricide|190
3|The Case of James Lynchehaun|195
2|Lethal Violence in Fin-de-siècle Ireland|198
3|The Particulars of Parricide|202
2|Defending the Indefensible|203
2|Finale|206
2|Bibliography|210
1|7: Is Theriocide Murder?|212
2|The Criminalization of Theriocide|213
2|Legal Personhood for Animals|218
2|Towards the Abolition of Speciesism|222
2|Bibliography|227
1|Index|230