This innovative volume gives contemporary insight into critical interspecies debates from an analytical perspective through the lens of punk.
Punk and the Animal explores the synergies, crossovers, and alignments of punk thinking, together with punk ideologies and influences, in contemporary animal studies. The volume includes contributions from leaders in the punk movement who engaged in exemplary practices that helped forge ongoing connections between punk and animal studies. In addition, it includes chapters by artists, scholars of visual and popular culture, animal studies specialists, and others in artistic and art-affiliated disciplines who have found their way into animal studies from one of the many manifestations of punk and who see punk’s ethos, ethics, and aesthetics as formative to their own work.
Table of Contents
Introduction Laura D. Gelfand and Angela Bartram
Section 1. Representation – I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges)
Chapter 1. Nonhuman Behavior: Punk as Enactive Animality
Kieran Cashell (Limerick School of Art and Design)
Chapter 2. Rattus Rattus: The Rat in Punk Lore
Russ Bestley (University of the Arts, London)
Chapter 3. Punk Care: in Making and Curating the Animal
Angela Bartram (University of Derby)
Section 2. Rights – Wart Hog (Ramones)
Chapter 4. A Divine Trajectory: Diet, Devotion and Animal Rights in Krishnacore
Mike Dines (Middlesex University), Kate Reddy and Francis Stewart (University of Stirling)
Chapter 5. ‘Vegan for the Animals:’ Earth Crisis and the Sound of Masculinity
Shayna Maskell (George Mason University)
Chapter 6. Interview with Ian MacKaye
with Angela Bartram and Laura D. Gelfand
Section 3. Activism – Pig in a Blanket (Rudimentary Peni)
Chapter 7. Not the Vegan Police: Interview with Joshua Ploeg, Vegan Punk Chef
Karl Steel (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Chapter 8. DIY Animal Rights Activism in British, American, and South African Punk Scenes: A Comparative Approach
Amber Lenser (University of Arkansas)
Chapter 9. ‘Trash Animals’– Folk Punk Solidarity Across Species
Seven Mattes (Michigan State University)
Chapter 10. Well, How Did I Get Here?
Laura D. Gelfand (Utah State University)
Notes on Contributors
Index