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This chapter focuses on questions about politics and practice in relation to entangled empathy (Gruen, Entangled Empathy). It may seem that concern for non-human animals and the non-human world in general is extravagant given the amount of racial violence and xenophobia, as well as gender discrimination of various sorts that continues to occur at increasing rates across the globe. Yet, thinking carefully about questions of the non-human can be illuminating in addressing these and other problems.
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Gruen, L. (2019). Entangled Empathy: Politics and Practice. In: Böhm, A., Ullrich, J. (eds) Animal Encounters. Cultural Animal Studies, vol 4. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04939-1_5
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