Recent Books
“Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze the issue of wild animal suffering (WAS), Johannsen explores how a collective, institutional obligation to assist wild animals should be understood. He claims that with enough research, genetic editing may one day give us the power to safely intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals’ liberties.”
Written by APPLE member Kyle Johannsen. (Routledge, 2020)
“For centuries, animals have worked alongside humans in a wide variety of workplaces, yet they are rarely recognized as workers or accorded labour rights. Many animal rights advocates have argued that using animals for their labour is inherently oppressive, and that animal labour should therefore be abolished. Recently, however, some people have argued that work can be a source of meaning, self-development, and social membership for animals, as it is for humans, and that our goal should be to create good work for animals, not to abolish work. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the benefits and drawbacks of animal labour as a site for interspecies justice.”
Edited by APPLE members Charlotte E. Blattner and Will Kymlicka, as well as Kendra Coulter. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
“The collection explores how authors working across a range of perspectives—postcolonial, Indigenous, black, queer, trans, feminist, disability, poststructuralist, posthumanist, and multispecies—weave their theoretical and political orientations with daily, intimate, and visceral practices of food consumption, preparation, and ingestion.”
Edited by APPLE member Samantha King as well as R. Scott Carey, Isabel Macquarrie, Victoria Niva Millious and Elaine M. Power. (Fordham University Press, 2019)
2020
Blattner, Charlotte E., and Odile Ammann. “Agricultural Exceptionalism and Industrial Animal Food Production: Exploring the Human Rights Nexus.” Journal of Food Law and Policy 15, no. 2 (2019): 92–151.
Blattner, Charlotte E., Sue Donaldson, and Ryan Wilcox. “Animal Agency in Community.” Politics and Animals 6 (2020): 1–22. (Open access)
Blattner, Charlotte E., Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Secondary Victimization of Animals in Criminal Procedure: Lessons from Switzerland.” Journal of Animal Ethics 10/1 (2020): 1–32.
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Should Animals Have a Right to Work? Promises and Pitfalls.” Animal Studies Journal 9/1 (2020): 32-92. (Author copy)
Côté-Boudreau, Frédéric, “Capacitisme”, in La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale edited by Renan Larue (Presses Universitaires de France, 2020), 135-146.
Dickstein, Jonathan, Jan Dutkiewicz, Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, and Drew Robert Winter, “Veganism as Left Praxis”, Capitalism Nature Socialism (2020): 1‑20. (author copy)
Donaldson, Sue. “Animal Agora: Animal Citizens and the Democratic Challenge.” Social Theory and Practice 46/4 (2020). (Author copy)
Donaldson, Sue. “Animals and Citizenship.” Minding Nature 13/2 (2020).
Donaldson, Sue, “Les refuges d’animaux”, in La pensée végane: 50 regards sur la condition animale, edited by Renan Larue (Presses Universitaires de France, 2020), 479‑487.
“Philosophy as a Way of Life: Julia Gibson”, Blog of the APA, interviewed by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (2020).
Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu “Lyons and Tygers and Wolves, Oh My! Human Equality and the ‘Dominion Covenant’ in Locke’s Two Treatises”, Political Theory (2020). (author copy)
Healey, Richard, and Angie Pepper. “Interspecies Justice: Agency, Self-Determination, and Assent.” Philosophical Studies (2020). (Author copy)
Hirtenfelder, Claudia. “An Uncomfortable Future We Want.” Animals in Society (blog), July 15, 2020.
Johannsen, Kyle. Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering (Routledge, 2020).
Johannsen, Kyle. “To Assist or Not to Assist? Assessing the Potential Moral Costs of Humanitarian Intervention in Nature.” Environmental Values 29/1 (2020): 29-45.
King, Samantha (ed.), et al. Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food (Fordham University Press, 2019).
Milburn, Josh. “Critical Terms for Animal Studies.” Environmental Politics 29/6 (2020): 1120–1121.
Milburn, Josh. “Should Vegans Compromise?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2020): 1–13.
Pepper, Angie. “Political Agency in Humans and Other Animals.” Contemporary Political Theory (2020). (Author copy)
Patter, Lauren E. Van, and Charlotte Blattner. “Advancing Ethical Principles for Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Nonhuman Animal Participants.”, Society & Animals 28/2 (2020): 171–190. (Author copy)
2019
Bachour, Omar, “Alienation and Animal Labour.” In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?, edited by Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter, and Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press, 2019): 116–138.
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Beyond the Goods/Resources Dichotomy: Animal Labor and Trade Law.” Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 22/ 2 (2019): 63–89.
Blattner, Charlotte E. Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2019). (Open access)
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Rethinking the 3Rs: From Whitewashing to Rights.” In Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change, edited by Kathrin Herrmann and Kimberley Jayne (Brill, 2019): 168–193. (Open access)
Blattner, Charlotte E. “The Recognition of Animal Sentience by the Law.” Journal of Animal Ethics 9/2 (2019): 121–136.
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Animal Labour: Toward a Prohibition of Forced Labour and a Right to Freely Choose One’s Work.” In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?, edited by Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter, and Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press, 2019): 91-115.
Côté-Boudreau, Frédéric. “Les animaux luttent aussi.” Ballast 8 (2019): 90–101.
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. “Animal Labour in a Post-Work Society.” In Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?, edited by Charlotte E. Blattner, Kendra Coulter, and Will Kymlicka (Oxford University Press, 2019): 207-227.
Fischer, Bob, and Josh Milburn. “In Defence of Backyard Chickens.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 36/1 (2019): 108–123.
Gibson, Julia. “Just Fanciers: Transformative Justice by Way of Fancy Rat Breeding as a Loving Form of Life.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 32 (2019): 105–126.
Milburn, Josh. “Vegetarian Eating.” In Handbook of Eating and Drinking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Herbert L. Meiselman (Springer, 2019): 1-20.
Nguyen, Nhi Ha. “Bird Play: Raising Red-Whiskered Bulbuls and (Re)Inventing Urban ‘Nature’ in Contemporary Vietnam.” Contemporary Social Science (2019): 1–14.
Pepper, Angie. “Adapting to Climate Change: What We Owe to Other Animals.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 36/4 (2019): 592–607.
Weisberg, Zipporah. “The Problem with the Personhood Argument.” ASEBL Journal 14/1 (2019): 33–36.
2018
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Tackling Concentrated Animal Agriculture in the Middle East through Standards of Investment, Export Credits, and Trade.” Middle East Law and Governance, 10/2 (2018): 141–159.
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. “Children and Animals.” In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, edited by Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder, and Jurgen De Wispelaere, (Routledge, 2018): 282–293. (Author copy)
Kymlicka, Will. “Human Rights without Human Supremacism.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 48/6 (2018): 763–792. (Author copy)
Kymlicka, Will, and Sue Donaldson. “Metics, Members and Citizens.” In Democratic Inclusion: Rainer Bauböck in Dialogue (Manchester University Press, 2018): 160–182. (Author copy)
Kymlicka, Will, and Sue Donaldson. “Rights.” In Critical Terms for Animal Studies, edited by Lori Gruen (University Of Chicago Press, 2018): 320–336. (Author copy)
Milburn, Josh. “Death-Free Dairy? The Ethics of Clean Milk.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 31/2 (2018): 261–279.
Milburn, Josh. “Nozick’s Libertarian Critique of Regan.” Between the Species 21/1 (2018): 68–93.
Pepper, Angie. “Delimiting Justice: Animal, Vegetable, Ecosystem?” Les Ateliers de l’éthique / The Ethics Forum, 13/1 (2018): 210–230.
Van Patter, Lauren, Tyler Flockhart, Jason Coe, Olaf Berke, Rodrigo Goller, Alice Hovorka, and Shane Bateman. “Perceptions of Community Cats and Preferences for Their Management in Guelph, Ontario. Part I: A Quantitative Analysis.” The Canadian Veterinary Journal / La Revue vétérinaire canadienne, 60/1 (2018): 41–47.
Van Patter, Lauren, Tyler Flockhart, Jason Coe, Olaf Berke, Rodrigo Goller, Alice Hovorka, and Shane Bateman. “Perceptions of Community Cats and Preferences for Their Management in Guelph, Ontario. Part II: A Qualitative Analysis.” The Canadian Veterinary Journal / La Revue vétérinaire canadienne 60/1 (2018): 48–54.
Van Patter, Lauren, and Alice J. Hovorka. “‘Of Place’ or ‘of People’: Exploring the Animal Spaces and Beastly Places of Feral Cats in Southern Ontario.” Social & Cultural Geography, 19/2 (2018): 275–295.
Weisberg, Zipporah. “Thinking Big: Uniting Feminism and Animal Liberation in the Age of #MeToo and #Times Up.” Animal Liberation Currents (blog), 2018.
2017
Blattner, Charlotte E. “Can Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Help Overcome Regulatory Gaps of Animal Law? Insights from Trophy Hunting.” American Journal of International Law Unbound 111 (2017): 419–424.
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. “Animals in Political Theory.” In The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies, edited by Linda Kalof (Oxford University Press, 2017): 43–64. (Author copy)
Johannsen, Kyle. “Animal Rights and the Problem of r-Strategists.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20/2 (2017): 333-345. (Author copy)
Kymlicka, Will. “Afterword: Realigning Multiculturalism and Animal Rights.” In Animals, Race, and Multiculturalism, edited by Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues and Les Mitchell, The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. (Springer, 2017): 295–304. (Author copy)
Kymlicka, Will. “Review of Garner and O’Sullivan (eds). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.” Animal Studies Journal 6/1 (2017): 175–181.
Kymlicka, Will. “Social Membership: Animal Law beyond the Property/Personhood Impasse.” Dalhousie Law Journal 40 (2017): 123–155.
Kymlicka, Will, and Sue Donaldson. “Inclusive Citizenship Beyond the Capacity Contract.” In The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, edited by Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink (Oxford University Press, 2017), 838-859. (Author copy)
Milburn, Josh. “Nonhuman animals as property holders: An exploration of the Lockean labour-mixing account.” Environmental Values 26/5 (2017): 629-648. (Author copy)
Milburn, Josh. “Robert Nozick on Nonhuman Animals: Rights, Value and the Meaning of Life.” In Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues, edited by Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade (Springer: 2017), 97-120. (Author copy)
Milburn, Josh. “The Animal Lovers’ Paradox? On the Ethics of ‘Pet Food.’” In Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall (Oxford University Press, 2017): 187–202. (Author copy)
Overall, Christine. “Throw Out the Dog? Death, Longevity, and Companion Animals.” In Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall (Oxford University Press, 2017): 249–63.
Pepper, Angie. “Justice for Animals in a Globalising World.” In Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues, edited by Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade (Springer, 2017): 149-175. (Author copy)
Weisberg, Zipporah. “Animal Assisted Intervention and Citizenship Theory.” In Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall (Oxford University Press, 2017): 218–233.
Weisberg, Zipporah. “Reinventing Left Humanism: Towards an Interspecies Emancipatory Project.” In Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues, edited by Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade (Springer, 2017): 121–148.
2016
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. “Comment: Between Wild and Domesticated: Rethinking Categories and Boundaries in Response to Animal Agency.” In Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans: Blurring Boundaries in Human-Animal Relationships, edited by Bernice Bovenkerk and Jozef Keulartz (Springer, 2016): 225–239. (Author copy)
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. “Make It So: Envisioning the Zoopolitical Revolution.” In Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation, edited by Paola Cavalieri (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016): 71–116. (Author copy)
Donaldson, Sue, and Will Kymlicka. “Rethinking Membership and Participation in an Inclusive Democracy: Cognitive Disability, Children, Animals.” In Disability and Political Theory, edited by Barbara Arneil and Nancy Hirschmann (Cambridge University Press, 2016): 168–197. (Author copy)
Kymlicka, Will, and Sue Donaldson. “Locating Animals in Political Philosophy.” Philosophy Compass 11/11 (2016): 692–701. (Author copy)
Milburn, Josh. “The Demandingness of Nozick’s ‘Lockean’ Proviso.” European Journal of Political Theory 15/3 (2014): 276-292. (Author copy)
Milburn, Josh. “Chewing Over In Vitro Meat: Animal Ethics, Cannibalism and Social Progress.” Res Publica 22/3 (2016): 249–265. (Author copy)
Pepper, Angie. “Beyond Anthropocentrism: Cosmopolitanism and Nonhuman Animals.” Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 9/2 (2016). (Author copy)