When Animals Speak

Toward an Interspecies Democracy

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ID8103824
AuthorsEsther Meijer (0000-0002-9597-5833, corresponding author), Eva Meijer
Year2020
Pages304
Publication date2020-05-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhen Animals Speak (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9781479859351.001.0001
OpenAlexW4250360954
Open LibraryOL28728987M
ISBN9781479859351
LanguageEN
Citations received55

This book develops a theory of political animal voices in three steps. The first part focuses on language. Drawing on insights from recent studies in biology and ethology, it challenges a view of language as exclusively human and argues that other animals speak. It also investigates the relation between developing common languages and creating common interspecies worlds. The second part of this book focuses on interspecies politics; it challenges an anthropocentric demarcation of the political and develops an alternative, which takes into account non-human animal agency and interspecies political relations. The third and final part of the book draws on the insights about language and politics developed in the first two parts to investigate how existing political practices and institutions can be extended to incorporate non-human animal political voices, and to explore new ways of interacting with other animals politically. In addition to the theoretical chapters, the author discusses two case studies. In the first, she draws on her experiences of learning how to live with a stray dog from Romania. In the second, she focuses on the goose-human conflict in the Netherlands

Geography · Animal and Plant Science Education · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · animals · Human-animal communication · Social aspects · Zoology

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