Power, knowledge, animals

Johnson, Lisa, 1967-

Power, knowledge, animals [Book] / Lisa Johnson. - Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - xiii, 172 p. ; 22 cm. - The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-169) and index.

The Essential Political Problem -- Contemporary Discourses about Animals -- Insurrection -- On Blindness to Being -- Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge).

This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power, this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things.

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Animals (Philosophy).
Human-animal relationships.
Power (Social sciences).

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