Animals in an Earthborn Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katherine E Young (University of Hawaii at Hilo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-152 |
| Publication date | 2026-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2332-8894 • E-ISSN: 2332-8908 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s233288942500003x |
| OpenAlex | W7155839808 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The animal question in politics is as old as politics itself. It is a question that drives my own work, where I consistently confront an absence of animals viewed on their own terms, in and for themselves, in conceptions of political life. Animals are often part of the story, but as mystical and allegorical figures, sacrificial bodies, and constitutive limits of the civil state. Modern liberal democracies take on the latter position of marking animals as the exit from politics, largely writing them (and nature more generally) out of the narrative altogether
Mysticism · Narrative · Politics · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |