TY - BOOK AU - Calarco,Matthew TI - Reflections on Roadkill between Mobility Studies and Animal Studies: Altermobilities SN - 9783031305788 U1 - 113 23 PY - 2023/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Philosophy of nature KW - Human ecology KW - Study and teaching KW - Animal migration KW - Animal welfare KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Critical theory KW - Philosophy of Nature KW - Environmental Studies KW - Animal Migration KW - Animal Ethics KW - Critical Theory N1 - Chapter 1. How (Not) to Look -- Chapter 2: What Is Roadkill? -- Chapter 3: Roadkill and Other Sacrificeable Lives -- Chapter 4: Subjects to Roadkill -- Chapter 5: Profaning the Streets N2 - Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life. Yet, consideration of the broader significance of the myriad social, ethical, and political issues related to roadkill has largely gone missing from mainstream scholarship and activism. This neglect persists even in fields such as mobility studies and animal studies that would otherwise seem to have a vested interest in the topic. This book aims to bring roadkill to the foreground of current discussions among scholars and activists in these fields in order to demonstrate that roadkill is a uniquely important site from which to understand and contest the machinations of the dominant social order. It argues that a careful examination of roadkill can help both to uncover the hidden violence of contemporary human-centered systems of mobility and to develop alternative modes of mobility for a renewed social life in common with our more-than-human kin. Matthew Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at CaliforniaState University Fullerton, USA. He specializes in animal studies and environmental humanities, and brings philosophies and theories of mobility to bear on various aspects of research and teaching. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30578-8 ER -