Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the Animal-Industrial Complex (A-IC). The A-IC is a useful framework for understanding how exploitative human-animal relations are central to capitalist relations and profit accumulation.

Gwen Hunnicutt is a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She studies gender violence - its varieties, causes, consequences, interspecies entanglements and politicizations. She is the author of Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective.

Kenneth Mentor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His published research includes peer-reviewed papers in the disciplines of criminology, organizational behavior, public administration, law and society, and online learning.

Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human- Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, UK. He is the author of The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (2024), Animals as Biotechnology - Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (2010) and he co-edited (with Nik Taylor) The Rise of Critical Animal Studies - From the Margins to the Centre (2014). He has also published several articles on ecofeminism, vegan transition, the food system, and the animal-industrial complex.