Omar Bachour

Omar Bachour completed his Ph.D. (Philosophy) at Queen’s in 2020. His dissertation, funded by a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship, focused on questions of alienation and community. In his doctoral project, he argues that any credible theory of alienation applies equally to nonhuman animals. Hence the community designed to overcome that alienation must necessarily include the latter. His other interests include the history of the Left vis-à-vis ‘the animal question’; the relation between systems of animal exploitation and global capitalism; and literary, as well as poetic, representations of animals that prefigure a human-animal community of equals.