Human-Animal Governance and University Practice in Canada

A Problematizing Redescription

Bibliographic Data

ID6237671
AuthorsLaura Janara (University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume48
Issue3
Pages647-673
Publication date2015-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423915000384
OpenAlexW2302341262
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

Each year through the practices of Canada's universities, vast numbers of nonhuman animals are caught, bought or bred, narrowly confined, manipulated and killed. These university−animal relations are governed by a state-based regime, the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC). Through the lens of critical public philosophy, I clarify the power that has constituted this governance regime and now sustains it, examining the regime's justifying claims, its practices that authorize universities and scholars as legally compliant and the related effects of its power. The resulting critical redescription reveals fundamental problems with the political legitimacy of CCAC governance and thus with the university−animal relations that it sanctions

Corporate governance · Legitimacy · Management · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sanctions · Sociology · State (computer science · Animal testing and alternatives · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Public Administration · Zoonotic diseases and public health

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