Reading Group

Fall 2023

• November 15: Faria, Catia., (2023). “Relationality.” In Animal Ethics in the Wild, Cambridge University Press, 126-143.
• October 11: Basl, John and Schouten, Gina., (2018). Can We Use Social Policy to Enhance Compliance with Moral Obligations to Animals? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21: 629-647.
• September 13: Kurki, Visa., (2023). “Expanding Agency and Borders of Competence.” In Villa-Rosas, Gonzalo and  Spaak, Torben. (eds). Legal Power and Legal Competence: Meaning, Normativity, Officials, and Theories. Law and Philosophy Library, 140: 47-67.

Summer 2023

• June 14: Papadopoulos, Dennis., (2022) Indigenizing wild animal sovereignty. Journal of Social Philosophy.
• May 17: Daria-Cojocaru, Mara, and Alasdair Cochrane., (2022). Solidarity with Wild Animals. Environmental Ethics, 44(1): 63-78.

Winter 2023

• March 17: Deckha, Maneesha., (2022). “Juvenile Smokescreens: Softening the Harm of Zoos, Aquaria, and Prisons through (Human) Children.” In Gruen, Lori and Marceau, Justin. (eds). Carceral Logics, Cambridge University Press, 238-260.
• February 10: Dave, Naisargi N., (2022). Love and Other Injustices: On Humans, Animals, and an Ethics of Indifference. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(3): 656-667.
• January 13: English, Jasmine, and Zacka, Bernardo., (2022). The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds, American Political Science Review, 116 (3): 1025-1037.

Fall 2022

• December 9:& Wrage, Birte., (2022). Caring animals and care ethics. Biology & Philosophy, 37(18).
• November 11: jones, pattrice., (2009). “Free as a bird: natural anarchism in action.” In Amster, Randall; DeLeon, Abraham; et al., (eds). Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy, Routledge, 2009.
• September 30: Ingold, Tim., (2000). “From Trust to Domination: An Alternative History of Human-Animal Relations” (Chapter 4) and “Building, Dwelling, Living: How Animals and People make themselves at home in the World.” In The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Routledge.

Summer 2022

• May 13: Nussbaum Wichert, Rachel and Nussbaum, Martha., (2021).  Can There Be Friendship Between Human Beings and Wild Animals?, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 22(1): 87-107.

Winter 2022

• April 8: Fischer, Bon; Palmer, Clare; and Kasperbauer TJ., (2021). Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide. Philosophical Studies.
• March 11: Dande, Innocent and Swart, Sandra., (2021). A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47(4): 567-586.
• February 11: Celermajer, D., and O’Brien, A. (2021). Alter-transitional justice; transforming unjust relations with the more-than-human. In Posthuman Legalities. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • and Charlotte Blattner. “Transitional Justice and Animal Law” (Forthcoming).
• January 21: Gillespie, Kathryn. (2021). For multispecies autoethnography. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1-14.
  • and Fischer, Bob and Milburn, Josh., (2019). In Defence of Backyard Chickens. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(1): 108–23.

Fall 2021

• December 3: Spannring, Reingard., (2019). "Mutual Becomings? In Search of an Ethical Pedagogic Space in Human-Horse Relations.” In Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Teresa and Valerie S. Banschbach. (eds). Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy, Palgrave Macmillan, 79-94.
• November 12: Stanescu, James., (2012). Species Trouble: Judith Butler, Mourning, and the Precarious Lives of Animals. Hypatia, 27(3): 567-582.
• October 8: Ahuja, Neel., (2021). “On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal In Meat!” In Chatterjee, Sushmita and Subramaniam, Banu. (eds). A Transnational Analysis,  Duke University Press, 213-240.
• September 17: Arcari, Paula; Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona; and Singer, Haley., (2020). Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits. Nature and Space, 1-26.

Winter 2021

• April 2: Johansen, Kyle., (2020). Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering, Routledge.
• March 19: Ko, Aph., (2019). “Freeing the Animal from the Grasp of the Animal Rights Movement: Final Thoughts.” In Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out, Lantern Books.
• March 5: Narayanan, Yamini., (2016). Street dogs at the intersection of colonialism and informality: ‘Subaltern animism’ as a posthuman critique of Indian cities. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(3): 475-494.
• February 19: Govindrajan, Radhika., (2018). “Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging.” In Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. University of Chicago Press.
• February 5: Franks, Becca., (2019) “What do animals want.” Animal Welfare 28: 1-10.
• January 22: Behdadi, Dorna., (2020) A Practice-Focused Case for Animal Moral Agency. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1-18.

Fall 2020

• December 4: Meijer, Eva., (2020). “From Animal Languages to Interspecies Worlds.” In When Animals Speak. New York University Press.
• November 20: Smith, Mick., (2001). Environmental Anamnesis: Walter Benjamin and the Ethics of Extinction. Environmental Ethics, 23(4): 359-376.
• November 6: Celermajer, Danielle et al., (2020). Justice Through a Multispecies Lens. Contemporary Political Theory, 19(3): 475-512.
• October 23: Painter, Corinne., (2016). Non-human animals within contemporary capitalism: A Marxist account of non-human animal liberation. Capital & Class, 40(2): 325-343.
• October 9: Gaard, Greta., (2013). Towards a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies. American Quarterly, 65(3): 595-618.
• September 25: Corman, Laura., (2020). “He(a)rd: Animal cultures and anti-colonial politics.” In Taylor, Chloë and Struthers Montford, Kelly. (eds). Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies, Routledge, 159-180.

Winter 2020

• March 27: Deckha, Maneesha., (2012). Toward a Postcolonial, Posthumanist Feminist Theory: Centralizing Race and Culture in Feminist Work on Nonhuman Animals. Hypatia, 27(3): 527–45.
• March 13: Kimmerer, Robin H., (2013). “The Honorable Harvest”. In Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions.
• February 28: Adams, Carol. J., (1991). Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals. Hypatia, 6(1):125-145.
• February 14: Donovan, Josephine., (2006). Feminism and the Treatment of Animals: From Care to Dialogue. Signs; Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 31(2):305-329.
• January 31: Calarco, Matthew., (2018). “The Three Ethologies”. In Ohrem, Dominik, and Calarco, Matthew. (eds.). Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 45-62.

Fall 2019

• November 29: Crary, Alice., (2018). “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status”. In Cureton, Adam and Wasserman, David.T. (eds). Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Oxford University Press, 45-466.
• November 15: Vincent, Sarah., Ring, Rebecca and Andrews, Kristen., (2018). “Normative Practices of Other Animals”. In Zimmerman, Aaron., Jones, Karen and Timmons, Mark. (eds). Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology. Routledge, 57-83. 
• November 1: Lorini, Giuseppe., (2018). Animal Norms: An Investigation of Normativity in the Non-Human Social World. Law, Culture and the Humanities, ;18(3).
• October 18: Barua, Maan., (2018). Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective. Theorizing the contemporary, Editor’s Forum.
• October 4: Gartoff, Jon., (2019). Animal Punishment. Philosophical Papers, 49(1):69-105.
• September 20: Cooke, Steve., (2019). Betraying Animals. The Journal of Ethics, 23(2):183–200.

Winter 2019

What Would Animals Say if We Asked the Right Questions

Fall 2018

Deckha, Maneesha., (forthcoming). Animals As Legal Beings: Creating A Postanthropocentric Legal Subjectivity.

Winter 2018

Taylor, Sunaura., (2017). Beasts of Burden. Animal and Disability Liberation. The New Press. 

Fall 2017

O’Sullivan, Siobhan and Garner, Robert., (eds). (2016). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics

Kymlicka, Will., (2017). [Review] Robert Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan (eds). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics. Rowman and Littlefield, Animal Studies Journal, 6(1): 175-181.

Winter 2017

Cavalieri, Paola., (ed). (2016). Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation

Fall 2016

• Coulter, Kendra (2016). Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Coulter, Kendra., (2016). “Beyond Human to Humane: A Multispecies Analysis of Care Work, Its Repression, and Its Potential.” Studies in Social Justice, 10(2).