Zoopolitical Thought

Seeking Interspecies Justice in and beyond Western Political Traditions

Under contract with University of Toronto Press.

Co-edited with André Krebber, Zoopolitical Thought features contributions from stellar scholars in political theory, philosophy, history, and classics.

The collection explores how traditional Western political thought might be rethought, reapplied, reconstructed, or challenged, when animals are taken seriously as subjects of justice. It includes chapters that explore how animals are, or could be, included within the works of political thinkers such as Plato, Plutarch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frances Power Cobbe, Karl Marx, and Christine Korsgaard. Certain chapters also put Western traditions’ approaches towards animals into conversation with those of traditions within Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Indigenous philosophies of the Americas.

My chapter, “On Animal Liberty: A (Taylor-)Millian Account of the Value of the Animal Individual” makes the case that John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill’s canonical work, On Liberty, can serve as a defence of the importance of both human and nonhuman animal individuality. If you would like to read this chapter ahead of the book’s publication, please feel free to get in contact.