Animals, equality and democracy
By: Siobhan O'Sullivan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780230243873
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Law and legislation; PHILOSOPHY / Political; Animal welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; Animal rights
Description: "Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favor those animals the community is most likely to see and engage with. Siobhan O'Sullivan argues that these inequities violate fundamental principle of justice and transparency"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Series Editors' Foreword; title: Preface by Prof. Robert Garner, University of Leicester, UK; title: Introduction: Where are all the Animals?; title: Animal Citizens; title: The Political Lives of Animals; title: Animal Invisibility; title: Out of Sight, Out of Mind; title: Applying the Justice Principle to Animal Citizens; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Index.