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Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that have been little engaged with in publication to the present. This book challenges critical animal studies adherents to expand their efforts of solidarity, mutual aid, and activism. Contributors to this volume extend invitations to those not familiar with critical animal studies to welcome them in with gestures of solidarity towards total liberation. Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination does not shy away from controversial topics but critically engages with them using care and tact. This is not controversy for the sake of being provocative, but not being afraid to target root causes of oppression. This book works toward coalition building to resist the current violence and build peaceful communities.

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I am always seeking out unruly ideas and undisciplined perspectives that will unsettle the ways that we have been conditioned to think about the world we live in, and that invite us to imagine and act to realize the worlds we might co-create. This powerful collection of writings on the future of Critical Animal Studies is an exemplar of such a vision and has challenged me to expand, deepen, and sharpen my thinking about how we can and must transform our freedom dreams into lived experience. David Naguib Pellow University of California Santa Barbara, author of Total Liberation and What is Critical Environmental Justice? It is rare, truly, that one finds a book that delivers on its radical and iconoclastic promise. This book does precisely that. Delinking critical animal studies from a presumed narrowness, Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination is deeply intersectional, deeply committed, and deeply cutting edge—in a rigorous, robust, and genuine way. This collection goes there; it is not afraid, at all, to be Black, trans, feminist, and anarchistic in ways that we strongly need. In short, read this. Now. Marquis Bey Author of Black Trans Feminism A wake-up call for critical animal studies that invites us to abandon respectability politics. These imaginative essays link liberatory thought and social justice action in ways that will astound, inspire, and anger you in turn. Best read with a mind open to anarchism. Margaret Robinson (Mi’kmaq) Dalhousie University, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and Identity

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Nathan Poirier is a professional tutor at Lansing Community College, has a graduate specialization in women’s and gender studies, master’s degrees in anthrozoology and mathematics, and is co-editor of Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation. Sarah Tomasello received her B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies and an M.S. in Anthrozoology from Canisius College. She has published in Green Theory and Praxis, and book chapters in Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies and Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies. Amber E. George, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Galen College. Dr. George is a board member for Critical Animal Studies and editor of Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Dr. George has co-edited numerous books on critical animal studies.

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