Saving Animals: Multispecies Ecologies of Rescue and Care

A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States

In the past three decades, animal rights advocates have established everything from elephant sanctuaries in Africa to shelters that rehabilitate animals used in medical testing, to homes for farmed animals, abandoned pets, and entertainment animals that have outlived their “usefulness.” Saving Animals is the first major ethnography to focus on the ethical issues animating the establishment of such places,...