Table of Contents

Introduction: Introducing Denialism in Environmental and Animal Abuse

Tomaž Grušovnik, Reingard Spannring and Karen Lykke Syse

Chapter 1: From Denial to Moral Disengagement: How Integrating Fundamental Insights from Psychology Can Help Us Better Understand Ongoing Inaction in the Light of an Exacerbating Climate Crisis

Susanne Stoll-Kleemann

Chapter 2: Denial as a Sense of Entitlement: Assessing the Role of Culture

Arne Johan Vetlesen

Chapter 3: Skepticism and Animal Virtues: Denialism of Animal Morality

Tomaž Grušovnik

Chapter 4: Human Uniqueness, Animal Minds, and Anthropodenial

Adam See

Chapter 5: Suffering Animals: Creaturely Fellowship and its Denial

Craig Taylor

Chapter 6: Brave New Salmon: From Enlightened Denial to Enlivened Practices

Martin Lee Mueller and Katja Maria Hydle

Chapter 7: The Animal that Therefore was Removed from View: The Presentation of Meat in Norway, 1950-2020

Karen Lykke Syse and Kristian Bjørkdahl

Chapter 8: Political Economy of Denialism: Addressing the Case of Animal Agriculture

John Sorenson and Atsuko Matsuoka

Chapter 9: Celebrate the Anthropocene? Why “Techno-Eco-Optimism” is a Strategy of Ultimate Denial

Helen Kopnina, Joe Gray, Haydn Washington and John Piccolo

Chapter 10: The Horse in the Room: The Denial of Animal Subjectivity and Agency in Social Science Research on Human-Horse Relationships

Reingard Spannring and José De Giorgio-Schoorl

Chapter 11: Still in the Shadow of Man? Judicial Denialism and Nonhuman Animals

Opi Outhwaite

About the Author

Tomaž Grušovnik is associate professor of philosophy and senior research fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, and at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Reingard Spannring is a sociologist at the Institute for Educational Science, University of Innsbruck in Austria.

Karen Lykke Syse is a cultural historian and is associate professor at Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo in Norway.

Reviews

Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial is a useful reference book for the topic of denial in relation to nonhuman nature that will hopefully inspire greater kindness toward and respect for planetary life.
*Animal Studies Journal*

This is not a comfortable book to read, but still an important one. Recommended.
*Choice*

This volume is a most valuable resource for facilitating awareness and understanding of the patterns of denial that serve to buttress destructive environmental policies and injustices against other animals. This powerful work should be on the bookshelf of every scholar/activist working for a nonviolent and sustainable future.
*David Nibert, Professor of Sociology, Wittenberg University*

Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial: Averting Our Gaze is a timely contribution to the growing discussion of denialism in the context of animal exploitation and the global destruction of nature – the rage of inhumanity. Its interdisciplinary essays encourage readers to deconstruct taken-for-granted assumptions, practices and structures, and move toward a more compassionate and just world.
*Marc Bekoff, University of Colorado and author of The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age*

It is encouraging to find rampant environmental and animal denialism given the attention it so urgently needs. The authors in this book have made a valuable start in moving beyond the cognitivist and rationalist assumptions which have hampered a full understanding in the past, and I hope this work itself will reach a wide audience and have a significant positive effect on its subject.
*Patrick Curry, editor of The Ecological Citizen*

Contributors to this important and timely collection grapple engagingly with the maddening question of why knowledge of massive environmental distress and animal abuse does not lead most people and societies to respond in a constructive or caring manner. They elucidate psychological and societal sources of personal and public apathy toward nonhuman animals and the planet, even where human interests are knowingly harmed by our disinclination to corrective action. – Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns
*Karen Davis, PhD, President of United Poultry Concerns*

Environmental and Animal Abuse Denial is the most urgently important book I've read in many years. Anyone interested in environmentalism or animal advocacy needs to read it. Anyone interested in seeing life on earth continue needs to read it.
*John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute*