Animals & Biodiversity

Think Tank Programme

Animals in Captivity: Zoos and Sanctuaries

Books

  • Abrell, E. (2021) Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
  • Acampora, R. (2010) Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter after Noah. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Anderson, V. D. (2004). Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Beck, A. M. (2002) The Ecology of Stray Dogs: A Study of Free-Ranging Urban Animals. West Lafayette, IN: NotaBell Books.
  • Bekoff, M., and Pierce, J. (2009) Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Bekoff, M. (2013). Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Berger, J. (1980) About Looking. New York: Vintage.
  • Braverman, I. (2012) Zooland: The Institution of Captivity. Stanford: Stanford University Press 
  • Cavalieri, P., and Singer, P. (1993) The Great Ape Project. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin
  • Chrulew, M., and Wadiwel, D. (2017) Foucault and Animals. Leyden, The Netherlands: Brill.
  • Davis, M. A. (2009). Invasion Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Derrida, J. (2008) The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I (2001-2002), edited by Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet, and Ginnette Muchaud, translated by Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago: Chicago University Press
  • Donahue, J., and Trump, E. (2006) The Politics of Zoos: Exotic Animals and Their Protectors. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press.
  • Gillespie, K. (2018) The Cow with the Eartag #1389. Chicago: Chicago University Press
  • Gruen, L. (2014) The Ethics of Captivity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Hediger, H. (1964). Wild Animals in Captivity: An Outline of the Biology of Zoological Gardens. London: Dover.
  • Imhoff, D. (2010) The CAFO Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories. Healdsburh: Watershed Media Press.
  • jones, p. (2020) Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision. New York: Lantern Publishing.
  • King, B. J. (2010) Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Kirby, D. 2012. Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
  • Ko, A. (2019) Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out. New York: Lantern.
  • Kricher, J. (2009). The balance of nature: ecology’s enduring myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Leopold, A. (1949). A Sand County Almanac: and Sketches Here and There. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Lorimer, J. (2015). Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature. London: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Meijer, E. (2019). When Animals Speak: Towards and Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York Press
  • Primack, R. B. & Sher, A. (2016). An introduction to conservation biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Rose, N. A., Parsons E. C., and Farinato, R. (2009) The case against marine mammals in captivity. Washington, D.C.: Humane Society of the United States
  •   Shukin, N. (2009) Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
  •   Wadiwel, D. (2015) The War Against Animals. Leyden, The Netherlands: Brill.
 

Articles/Chapters

  • Abrell, E. (2017) Introduction: Interrogating Captive Freedom: The Possibilities and Limits of Animal Sanctuaries. Animal Studies Journal, 6(2), 1-8. doi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss2/2
  • Acampora, R. (2005) Zoos and Eyes: Contesting Captivity and Seeking Successor Practices. Society and Animals 13(1): 69–88.
  • Baker, K. C. (2004) Benefits of Positive Human Interaction for Socially-Housed Chimpanzees. Animal Welfare 13(3): 239–245
  • Baker, K. C., Seres, M., Aureli, F., and de Waal, F. (2000) Injury Risks among Chimpanzees in Three Housing Conditions. American Journal of Primatology 51(3): 161–175.
  • Blattner, C. E., Donaldson, S., and Wilcox, R. (2020) Agency in Community: A Political Multispecies Ethnography of VINE Sanctuary. Politics and Animals 6: 1-22.
  • Buckley, C. (2009) Sanctuary: A Fundamental Requirement of Wildlife Management. In An Elephant In the Room: The Science and Well-Being of Elephants in Captivity, Forthman D. L., Kane L. F., Hancocks D., and Waldau P. (eds.), 191–197. North Grafton, MA: Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy.
  • Callicott, J. B. (1980). Animal liberation: A triangular affair. Environmental Ethics, 2(4), 311–338.
  • Cafazzo, S., Valsecchi, P., Fantini, C., and Natoli, E. (2009) Social Dynamics of a Group of Free-Ranging Domestic Dogs Living in a Suburban Environment. Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research 4(2): 61.
  • Chrulew, M. (2010) From Zoo to Zoopolis: Effectively Enacting Eden. In Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter after Noah. Edited by Acampora, R. Lanham: Lexington Books, 193–219.
  • Davis, M. A, Chew. K., Hobbs, R. J., Lugo, A. E., Ewel, J. J., Vermeij, G. J., & Brown, J. H. (2011). Don’t Judge Species on Their Origins. Nature 474(7350), 153–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/474153a
  • DeMaster, D. P., and Drevenak J. K. (1988). Survivorship Patterns in Three Species of Captive Cetaceans. Marine Mammal Science 4(4): 297–311.
  • Donaldson, S., and Kymlicka, W. (2015) Farmed Animal Sanctuaries: The Heart of the Movement? Politics and Animals 1: 50-74
  • Doyle, C. (2017) Captive Wildlife Sanctuaries: Definition, Ethical Considerations and Public Perception. Animal Studies Journal 6(2): 55-85. doi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss2/5
  • Hearne, V. (1999) A Taxonomy of Knowing: Animals Captive, Free-Ranging, and at Liberty. In Humans and Other Animals, Mack A. (ed.), 25–40. Columbus: Ohio State University Press
  • Jamieson, D. (2002) Against Zoos. In Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature, Dale Jamieson (ed.), 166–175. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Jett, J., and Ventre J. (2012) Orca Captivity (Orcinus orca) and Vulnerability to Mosquito-Transmitted Viruses. Journal of Marine Animals and Their Ecology 5(2): 9–16.
  • Kareiva, P. (2014). New Conservation: Setting the Record Straight and Finding Common ground. Conservation Biology, 28(3), 634–636. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12295.
  • Kheel, M. (1985). The liberation of nature: a circular affair. Environmental Ethics, 7(2), 135-149.
  • Kopnina, H., Washingtond, H., Gray, J., & Taylor, B. (2018) “The ‘future of conservation’ debate:defending ecocentrism and the nature needs half movement”. Biological Conservation, 217, 140–148. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.10.016.
  • Lynn, W. S., Santiago-Avila, F., Lindenmayer, J., Hadidian, J., Wallach, A., & King, B. J. (2019). A Moral Panic Over Cats. Conservation Biology, 00(0), 1–8. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13346.
  • Mathews, F. (2016). From biodiversity-based conservation to an ethic of bio-proportionality. Biological Conservation, 200, 140–148. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.05.037
  • Marino, L., and Frohoff T. (2011) Towards a New Paradigm of Non-captive Research on Cetacean Cognition. Public Library of Science ONE 6(9): e24121. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0024121
  • Marino, L., Lilienfeld, S. O., Malamud R., Nobis N., and Broglio R. (2010) Do Zoos and Aquariums Promote Attitude Change in Visitors? A Critical Evaluation of the American Zoo and Aquarium Study. Society and Animals 18: 126–138
  • Santiago-Ávila, F.J., & Lynn, W.S. (2020) Bridging Compassion and Justice in Conservation Ethics. Biological Conservation, 248. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108648.
  • Soulé, M. E. (1985). What is conservation biology?. BioScience, 35(11), 727–734. doi: 10.2307/1310054.
  • Wallach, A. D., Bekoff, M., Batavia, C., Nelson, M. P., & Ramp, D. (2018). Summoning Compassion to Address the Challenges of Conservation. Conservation Biology, 1–11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13126
  • Winders, Delcianna J. (2017) Captive Wildlife at a Crossroads – Sanctuaries, Accreditation, and Humane-Washing. Animal Studies Journal, 6(2): 161-178. doi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss2/9
 

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