anthroparchy

plural anthroparchies

1. A social system of attitudes, practices, and institutions through which the natural world and non-human animals are dominated to the benefit of humans.

   I suggest that five sub-systems, sets of institutions and processes network to form a social system of anthroparchy.

   2010, Judith Burnett, Syd Jeffers, Graham Thomas, editors, New Social Connections: Sociology's Subjects and Objects, page 100

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   I think, rather, that the anthroparchy's fully legitimate origin allows us to grant it the force and power necessary to fulfill its important mission.

   2010, Rafael Domingo, chapter I, in The New Global Law, page 119

   Cudworth's own approach to intersecting oppression is the development of a theory of anthroparchy: 'a social system, a complex and relatively stable set of hierarchical relationships in which “nature” is dominated through formations of social organization which privilege the human' (2011: 67).

   2014, Matthew Cole, Kate Stewart, Our Children and Other Animals: The Cultural Construction of Human-Animal Relations in Childhood, page 27