Erika Cudworth

This book suggests that the primary purpose of current production and distribution of products and services from the global capitalist system is not to satisfy human needs but to create profit for the owners of capital, which in turn has devastating consequences for the environment and for vulnerable people in both developed and developing countries. The wider dynamics of capitalist systems of production/consumption and inequality are also explored in relation to economic and socio/cultural perspectives. With this in mind, the essays address three key themes: relations between technologies, inequalities, and exploitation; issues surrounding technologies and development; and the nature of technologies and their associated opportunities for the future. -- Publisher description

An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations provides a radical new agenda for a progressive, twenty-first century international relations.

Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality. Rising from the anarchist-influenced Occupy Movement, this book brings together international scholars and activists who challenge us all to look more critically into the causes of speciesism and to take a broader view of peace, social justice and the nature of oppression. Animal advocates have long argued that speciesism will end if the humanity adopts a vegan ethic. This concept is developed into the argument that the vegan ethic has the most promise if it is also anti-capitalist and against all forms of domination. (Source: [McFarland & Company](

"A provocative sociological account of human relations with non-human animals, providing an innovative theorization of the social relations of species in terms of complex systemic relations of domination, looking at ways other animals are constitutive of human social lives at the dinner table, as livestock and as companions in our homes"--

"In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the Enlightenment project of overcoming the hazards of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered, human-centred approach. As a means of predicting global political events and trends, it has failed consistently. It is therefore essential, the authors argue, that we develop a more sophisticated analysis of global politics, taking into account the broader environment, social relations, economic practices and formations of power. The book reveals how the study of international politics is transformed by the understanding that we have never been exclusively human. An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations provides a radical new agenda for a progressive, twenty-first century international relations."--Page 4 of cover.

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