Rassismus als Menschenzoo

What does the term ‘human zoo’ actually mean and what is its connection to racism and the climate crisis? The performative ideology of racism as a human zoo is subject to a historical change of form and draws its affective energy from the unconscious. In this book, Peer Zickgraf analyses society’s transformation from polis to zoopolis on the basis of seven global case studies and combines historical, sociological, philosophical, literary and psychoanalytical aspects. Using keen insight, he captures the essential elements of the ‘zoo of man’ in its various facets and, in doing so, makes an important contribution to the analysis of social and cultural history.