Animals in Political Theory

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ID8092740
AuthorsSue Donaldson (0000-0002-3901-232X, Film Independent), Will Kymlicka (0000-0001-6468-5174, Queen's University)
EditorsLinda Kalof
Year2015
Pages42-64
Publication date2015-07-09
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199927142.013.33
OpenAlexW1752666087
ISBN9780199927142
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Western political theorists have largely ignored the animal question, assuming that animals have no place in our theories of democracy, citizenship, membership, sovereignty, and the public good. Conversely, animal ethicists have largely ignored political theory, assuming that we can theorize the moral status and moral rights of animals without drawing on the categories and concepts of political theory. This chapter traces the history of this separation between animals and political theory, examines the resulting intellectual blind spots for animal ethics, and reviews recent attempts to bring the two together. Situating animal rights within political theory has the potential to identify new models of justice in human-animal relations, and to open up new areas of scholarship and research

Animal ethics · Animal rights · Citizenship · Democracy · Democratic Theory · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy

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