Description

While the dominant cultural narrative depicts the history of hunting, capturing, and killing of other animals as beneficial for human development, historical and contemporary evidence shows otherwise. Animal Oppression and Malev(i)olence: Hunting, Domesecration, Capitalism, and the Deformation of Human Society reveals the human practice of stalking, killing, exploiting, and eating other animals that led to the social construction of a malevolent, violent, and predacious form of masculinity and the start of human social stratification and oppression. Thereafter the course of human social development was placed on a deformative trajectory, leading to warfare, the emergence of deadly zoonotic disease, and terrorist-based colonial and imperialist orders. Primarily spread throughout the world by way of European conquests, and leading to the rise of capitalism, hunting and this violent and rapacious form of masculinity is continually promoted as ideal training for warfare and global domination, especially in the United States. As U.S.-driven global violence, destruction, and deprivation accelerates in the 21st century, recognition of, and challenges to, this dominant form of masculinity and its caustic capitalist progeny, and the longstanding mutually constitutive violence between humans and other animals, are essential for creating a peaceful and sustainable world.