The Global Citizenship Observatory recently released a series of discussion papers about animals and politics. APPLE convenors Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka started the discussion with their piece titled: Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognized as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? Five papers, by leading scholars follow their contribution, namely:
- The Politics of Everyday Lives: A Feminist Perspective on What Counts as Political, by Maneesha Deckha
- Politics with Animals: Supporting their Struggle, by Paola Cavalieri
- Can Human and Non-human Animals be Political Equals? by Rainer Bauböck
- Some Political Animals Will Inevitably Be More Equal Than Others by Jelena Džankić
- Political, not metaphysical: A difficulty for a freestanding conception of animal rights by Peter Niesen