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VEGAN ENTANGLEMENTS | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
Join us to discuss personal essays on the intersections of the prison-industrial complex, industrial animal agriculture, and capitalism.
Editor Zane McNeill’s VEGAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism invites over 15 activists, scholars, and journalists to grapple with some of the most topical issues facing the animal protection movement, specifically its historical dependence on the prison- and immigration- industrial complexes and the carceral logics that inform and normalize the violence of incarceration and deportation. The contributors to this collection not only dissect and interrogate this relationship between the animal welfare movement and carcerality, surveillance, white supremacy, and capitalism, but offer concrete tactics for activists, non-profits, and other stakeholders to create a more equitable animal welfare movement based upon abolition and collective liberation.
Zane McNeill is joining on the virtual Busboys stage for a celebration event, joined in conversation by Dr. William Horne, Riley Clare Valentine, and Vasile Stanescu. Copies of the book will be available for purchase before and during the event, so make sure to order your copy before we’re out of stock! Your purchase of the book includes shipping anywhere in the United States via USPS.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Please note that this event is VIRTUAL and will only be livestreamed.
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Zane McNeill is a nonbinary scholar-activist from West Virginia who has published edited collections with Sanctuary Publishers, PM Press, and Lantern Publishing & Media. They were the recipient of the 2022 National Lawyer Guild’s Legal Worker Award for their labor and animal rights organizing and are a Board Member of the nonprofit, Rights for Animal Rights Advocates (RARA).
Dr. William Horne is a postdoctoral fellow at Villanova University and is a co-founder and editor of The Activist History Review. He researches racial capitalism and its relationship to carcerality in the aftermaths of slavery. His ongoing projects examine the relationship of white backlashes to the state, systems of policing and incarceration, racial science and the eugenic logic of racial capitalism, and Black grassroots activism and revolutionary thought.
Riley Clare Valentine holds their Ph.D. in Political Science from Louisiana State University. They study neoliberalism and the ways in which it reveals itself as a political reasoning in presidential speeches. They additionally do work in care ethics as an alternative to neoliberalism and engage in theories of self-assertion. Outside of academia, they are long-term community organizers. They received their B.A. from Agnes Scott College.
Vasile Stanescu received his Ph.D. in the program of Modern Thought and Literature (MTL) at Stanford University. He serves as Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at Mercer University. Stanescu is co-senior editor of the Critical Animal Studies book series published by Rodopi/Brill. His publication have occurred in journals such as the American Behavioral Scientist, Liberazioni – Rivista di critica antispecista [Liberations-Anti-Specieist Criticisms], Journal fürkritische Tierstudien [The German Journal for Critical Animal Studies], The Journal of American Culture, Animal Studies Journal, and the Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Stanescu has been recognized by The Woods Institute for the Environment, Minding Animals International, The Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Culture and Animals Foundation, and the Institutul Cultural Român, [Institute for Romanian Culture] among others.
