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Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies book cover

1st Edition

Colonialism and Animality Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

Edited By Kelly Struthers Montford, Chloë Taylor Copyright 2020
332 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected. Composed... Read more

Foreword: Thinking "Critically" About Animals After Colonialism

Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Unsettling Relationships in Colonial Contexts

Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloë Taylor

SECTION I: Tensions and Alliances Between Animal and Decolonial Activisms

1. An Indigenous Critique of Critical Animal Studies

Billy-Ray Belcourt

2. Tensions in Contemporary Indigenous and Animal Advocacy Struggles: The Commercial Seal Hunt as a Case Study

Darren Chang

3. Makah Whaling and the (Non)Ecological Indian

Claire Jean Kim

SECTION II: Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships with Animals

4. Veganism and Mi'kmaq Legends

Margaret Robinson

5. Growling Ontologies: Indigeneity, Becoming-Souls and Settler Colonial Inaccessibility

Vanessa Watts

6. Beyond Edibility: Towards a Nonspeciesist, Decolonial Food Ontology

Kelly Struthers Montford and Chloë Taylor

SECTION III: Cultural Perspectives

7. He(a)rd: Animal Cultures and Anti-Colonial Politics

Lauren Corman

8. Dingoes and Dog-Whistling: A Cultural Politics of Race and Species in Australia

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

9. Haunting Pigs, Swimming Jaguars: Mourning, Animals and Ayahuasca

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

SECTION IV: Colonialism, Animals, and the Law

10. Constitutional Protections for Animals: A Comparative Animal-Centered and Postcolonial Reading

Maneesha Deckha

11. Placing Angola: Racialization, Anthropocentrism, and Settler Colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo

Kathryn Gillespie

12. Toward A Theory of Multi-Species Carcerality

Kelly Struthers Montford

Biography

Kelly Struthers Montford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.



Chloë Taylor is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

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