Paulina Siemieniec is coordinating the reading group for 2020-21. If you would like to join us, please write to 13ps75@queensu.ca.
Winter 2021
- January 22: Behdadi, Dorna. “A Practice-Focused Case for Animal Moral Agency.” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2020): 1-18.
- February 5: Franks, Becca. “What do animals want.” Animal Welfare 28, (2019): 1-10.
- February 19: Govindrajan, Radhika. “Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging.” In Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- March 5: Narayanan, Yamini. “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, no. 3 (2017): 475-494.
- March 19: Ko, Aph. “Freeing the Animal from the Grasp of the Animal Rights Movement: Final Thoughts.” In Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out. New York: Lantern Books, 2019.
- April 2: Johansen, Kyle. Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Fall 2020
- September 25: Corman, Laura. “He(a)rd: Animal cultures and anti-colonial politics” in Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies, eds. Taylor, Chloë and Struthers Montford, Kelly (New York: Routledge, 2020), 159-180.
- October 9: Gaard, Greta. “Towards a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies.” American Quarterly 2013 65, no. 3 (2013): 595-618.
- Oct 23: Painter, Corinne. “Non-human animals within contemporary capitalism: A Marxist account of non-human animal liberation.” Capital & Class 40, no. 2 (2016): 325-343.
- Nov 6: Celermajer, Danielle et al. “Justice Through a Multispecies Lens.” Contemporary Political Theory 19, no. 3 (September 2020): 475-512.
- Nov 20: Smith, Mick. “Environmental Anamnesis: Walter Benjamin and the Ethics of Extinction.” Environmental Ethics 23, no. 4 (2001): 359-376.
- Dec 4: Meijer, Eva. “From Animal Languages to Interspecies Worlds” in When Animals Speak. New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Winter 2020
- January 31: Calarco, Matthew, “The Three Ethologies”. In D. Ohrem & M. Calarco (Eds.), Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, 45–62. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- February 14: Donovan, Josephine. “Feminism and the Treatment of Animals: From Care to Dialogue”, The University of Chicago Press 31, no. 2 (Winter 2006), 305-329.
- February 28: Adams, Carol. J. (1991). “Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals.” Hypatia, 6(1), 125-145.
- March 13: Kimmerer, Robin H. “The Honorable Harvest”. In Braiding sweetgrass. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
- March 27: Deckha, Maneesha. “Toward a Postcolonial, Posthumanist Feminist Theory: Centralizing Race and Culture in Feminist Work on Nonhuman Animals.” Hypatia 27, no. 3 (2012): 527–45.
Fall 2019
- September 20: Cooke, S. (2019). “Betraying Animals”. The Journal of Ethics, 23 (2), 183–200.
- October 4: Jon Gartoff (2019). “Animal Punishment”. Philosophical Papers.
- October 18: Barua, M. (2018). “Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective”. Theorizing the contemporary.
- November 1: Giuseppe Lorini (2018). “Animal Norms: An Investigation of Normativity in the Non-Human Social World”. Law, Culture and the Humanities.
- November 15: Sarah Vincent et al. (2018). “Normative Practices of Other Animals”. Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology.
- November 29: Alice Crary (2018). “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status”. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability.
Winter 2019
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (2016) by Vinciane Despret.
Fall 2018
- Animals As Legal Beings: Creating A Postanthropocentric Legal Subjectivity (forthcoming) by Maneesha Deckha.
Winter 2018
Beasts of Burden. Animal and Disability Liberation (2017) by Sunaura Taylor.
Fall 2017
The Political Turn in Animal Ethics (2016), edited by Robert Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan.- Kymlicka, Will. “[Review] Robert Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan (eds). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.”, Animal Studies Journal, 6(1), 2017, 175-181.
Winter 2017
Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation (2016), edited by Paola Cavalieri.
Fall 2016
Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity (2016) by Kendra Coulter.- Coulter, Kendra. “Beyond Human to Humane: A Multispecies Analysis of Care Work, Its Repression, and Its Potential.” Studies in Social Justice, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2016)