Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Abolitionism -- Absent Referent -- Activism -- Agency -- Animal-Industrial Complex -- Animal Liberation -- Animal Welfare and Animal Rights -- Animot -- Anthropocene -- Anthropocentrism -- Anthropological Machine -- Anthropomorphism -- Art -- Becoming-Animal -- Biopolitics -- CAFO -- Capitalism -- Captivity -- Carnophallogocentrism -- Climate Change -- Colonialism -- Companion Species -- Death -- Dehumanization -- Disability -- Empathy -- Entertainment -- Environmentalism -- Equal Consideration -- Ethics -- Ethology -- Evolutionary Theory -- Experimentation -- Extinction -- Feminism -- Human/Animal Distinction -- Hunting -- Intersectionality -- Invasive Species -- Language -- Law -- Meat -- Mind -- More-Than-Human -- Ontology/Ontological -- Pets -- Play -- Posthumanism -- Queer -- Race -- Rewilding -- Roadkill -- Sentience -- Shelters and Sanctuaries -- Speciesism -- Total Liberation -- Veganism and Vegetarianism -- War -- Wildlife -- Work -- World -- Zoopolis -- Zoos -- Bibliography -- Index.
Prefaced with a brief introduction to the field of animal studies, the text explores the key influential terms, topics and debates which have had a major impact on the field, and that students are most likely to encounter in their animal studies classes.