When animals speak : toward an interspecies democracy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meijer, Eva, 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Animals in context.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Speaking with animals. 1. The animal, what a word! : human language and non-human animals ; 2. Animal languages ; 3. From animal languages to interspecies worlds ; Case study 1: Stray philosophy : dog-human observations on language, freedom, and politics
  • Part II. Political animals and animal politics. 4. Animal politics : justice, power, and political animal agency ; 5. Animals and the state : citizenship, sovereignty, and reformulating politics ; 6. Worm politics ; Case study 2: Goose politics : resistance, deliberation, and the politics of space
  • Part III. From animal politics to interspecies change. 7. Animal activism and interspecies change ; 8. Animal democracy and the challenges of political participation ; 9. Deliberating animals : from multispecies dialogues to interspecies deliberation
  • Conclusion: Thinking with animals.