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Colonialism and Animality Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies
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 of 12 chapters by an international team of specialists plus a Foreword by Dinesh Wadiwel, the book is divided into four themes:
- Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms
- Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships with Animals
- Cultural Perspectives
- Colonialism, Animals, and the Law
This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, as well as postdoctoral scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native Studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as Cultural Studies, Animal Law and Critical Criminology.
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.
