Animal geographies III

Ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID8068682
AuthorsHenry Buller (0000-0001-5652-4434, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume40
Issue3
Pages422-430
Publication date2015-04-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132515580489
OpenAlexW2084397411
LanguageEN
Citations received57
References cited62

There is no animal geography without ethics. The very coupling of the words gives rise to an ethical endeavour; an acceptance that animals have a geography, a making visible of animals within our human geography and scholarship, an acknowledgement that our relationship with animals has consequences. For some, this ethical endeavour extends to politics and includes engaged activism or to individual commitment such as not to eat meat, not to ‘own’ a pet, not to visit zoos and so on. This is a personal choice but, at a broader level, animal geography, in recognizing animals as co-respondent subjects, gives them a moral placing within the academy that, arguably, they rarely enjoyed before. This final report considers the contribution of animal geography and animal geographers to a more informed ethics of human-animal relations, one that increasingly confounds an over-simplistic view of animals as merely moral patients to suggest an ethics which guides a broader, more inclusive moral community

Acknowledgement · Animal ethics · Animal rights · Environmental ethics · Human geography · Political science · Politics · Respondent · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law

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