In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness."In developing a new legal subje...

Si bien el interés por la consideración moral que corresponde a los animales es tan antiguo como la especulación filosófica en Occidente, a partir de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo pasado el mismo ha crecido exponencialmente. Este libro presenta una muestra de la producción teórica desarrollada en este campo desde la filosofía moral liberal, la teoría política, el derecho, los estudios críticos y los feminismos, en un repaso de las últimas cinco décadas, a través de trabajos que se p...

Literature on the ethics and politics of food and that on human–animal relationships have infrequently converged. Representing an initial step toward bridging this divide, Messy Eating features interviews with thirteen prominent and emerging scholars about the connections between their academic work and their approach to consuming animals as food. The collection explores how authors working across a range of perspectives—postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans, feminist, dis...