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The idea that animals should - or even can - have a place in the political sphere may seem a little odd to most people. Here, I’ve put together a little collection of resources that have inspired me in my thinking and writing on animals, politics, and ethics more broadly. Each of these works, in their own way, reflects commitments to rejecting discrimination on the basis of species, and to viewing animals (and humans) as members of multispecies communities, who are deserving of rights and respect.
Books
Articles
Cooke, Steve. 2017. Animal Kingdoms: On Habitat Rights for Wild Animals. Environmental Values 26 (1): 53–72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44132333
Gelber, Katharine, and Siobhan O’Sullivan. 2021. Cat got your tongue? Free speech, democracy and Australia’s ‘ag-gag’ laws. Australian Journal of Political Science 56(1): 19-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2020.1799938
Kymlicka, Will, and Sue Donaldson. 2014. Animals and the Frontiers of Citizenship. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 34(2): 201–219. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqu001
Meijer, Eva. 2013. Political Communication with Animals. Humanimalia 5 (1): 28–52. https://humanimalia.org/article/view/9966/10433
Milburn, Josh, and Alasdair Cochrane. 2021. Should We Protect Animals from Hate Speech?. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 41(4): 1149–1172. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqab013
Potter, Will. 2017. Ag-Gag Laws: Corporate Attempts to Keep Consumers in the Dark. Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity 5 (1): 1–31. https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/934
Many academic articles find themselves behind paywalls, and therefore virtually inaccessible for people without a university library subscription. If you don’t have access to any of these articles and would like to get your hands on them, please don’t hesitate to reach out!