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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
Borrows, Lindsay, and Jessica Eisen. 2025. “Our More-than-Human Constitutions.” Review of Constitutional Studies 29(2): 173–208. https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/00_Introduction.pdf
Cooke, Steve. 2025. “Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder.” Journal of Applied Philosophy. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70040
Donaldson, Sue. 2020. “Animal Agora: Animal Citizens and the Democratic Challenge.” Social Theory and Practice 46(4): 709–35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45302463.
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
Robinson, Margaret. 2014. "Animal Personhood in Mi’kmaq Perspective." Societies 4(4): 672-688. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc4040672
Taylor, Sunaura. 2020. "Animal Crips.” In Disability and Animality, edited by Stephanie Jenkins, Kelly Struthers Montford, and Chloë Taylor. Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003014270-3/animal-crips-sunaura-taylor
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!
