Popular and Decolonial Veganism

Animal Rights, Racialized and Indigenous Subjectivities in Latin America

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22343335
AutoresJuan José Ponce León (0000-0002-9588-7390, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume12
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2024-11-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRelations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2283-3196 • E-ISSN: 2280-9643
EditoraLed Edizioni Universitarie (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.7358/rela-2024-01-ponj
OpenAlexW4404637157
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

The white-elitist veganism of the Global North does not adequately respond to the territorial, cultural, and economic particularities of the Latin American region. This article discusses the approaches of animal rights activists from the South and their critical handling of the animal question, which challenges the neocolonial and universalising logics characteristic of hegemonic animal advocacy. It seeks to explain empirically the composition of popular and decolonial styles of veganism in Latin America, using a qualitative methodology to analyse the life stories of Luis, Luz and Puka, indigenous animal rights activists from Ecuador and Peru. Thus, it describes the subjectivities of popular veganism which, sharing the wound of colonialism, develop critical decolonial discourses and practices that affirm the principles of the Andean cosmovision of Buen Vivir - Good Living, the return to the “chakra”, respect for the living, the recovery of ancestral memory, and the defence of territorial food sovereignty

Biology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Hegemony · Indigenous · Indigenous rights · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Ecology