Category: Animals

Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 1, 2015

“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”

Animals

Season’s Greetings, Love, and Molecules

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 24, 2014

“Did I make you happy?” is what I would ask him, and I think, I hope, I trust the answer would be yes.

Animals

PETA: Free the Animals, Hurt the Humans

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2014

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

Review of Trash Animals

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 18, 2013

What makes a trash animal?

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.

Animals On Books and Publishing

Yvonne Zipter’s Like Some Bookie God

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 28, 2010

A greyhound is a haiku of a dog.

Animals On Books and Publishing

Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 11, 2007

“Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.”

Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir by [Mathews, Dan]

Animals On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 16, 2007

It never occurs to an otherwise progressive-minded Kingsolver that her project might replicate the United States’ political isolationism