Titlebook: Literature and Meat Since 1900; Seán McCorry,John Miller Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licens

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,“They’ll Be Breeding Us Like Cattle!”: Population Ecology and Human Exceptionalism in ,onmentalism and the environmental sciences. In the field of population ecology, the publication of . (1972) and . (1968) heightened cultural anxieties around “overpopulation”, and in the same period, a thriving subgenre of speculative fiction translated these anxieties into apocalyptic narratives of

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,Herring Fisheries, Fish-Eating and Natural History in W. G. Sebald’s ,ssage from . in which Sebald’s narrator melancholically reflects on over two hundred years of herring fishing in the North Sea, and on the long-term consequences of the economic commodification and scientific instrumentalization of herring. I argue that this passage challenges anthropocentric and ex

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,Narrative Possibilities in Ruth Ozeki’s ,lobal capitalism, exposing how profit-seeking ventures have created a climatic crisis of epic proportions in which animals and people live, and die, in horrid conditions. However, because it dramatically centres on the contradictions in the processes of the production and consumption themselves, in

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,Belonging to This World: On Living Like an Animal in Michel Faber’s ,y but in a determined manner toward another way of life. Isserley (who belongs to a highly-intelligent alien species that refers to itself as “human”) works in the voddissin industry, which captures and transforms “vodsels” (the term the aliens use for members of ., who are understood by them to be

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Meanings of Meat in Videogames, the most nourishing form of sustenance for those who are hungry, but it can also operate as the most effective restorative for those who are injured, as a potent source of temporary power-ups and enhancements, or as a valuable resource to be spent on permanent improvements and upgrades. In short, i

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2634-6338 hich our meat regime is shaped, reproduced and challenged as much by cultural and imaginative factors as by political contestation and moral reasoning..978-3-030-26919-7978-3-030-26917-3Series ISSN 2634-6338 Series E-ISSN 2634-6346