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).