Political Animals and Animal Politics

188 Pages·2014·0.71 MB·English

by  Marcel Wissenburg

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ANIMAL SUFFERING: PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
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ANIMALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH
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ANIMALS IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD: ETHICAL PERCEPTIONS
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POWER, KNOWLEDGE, ANIMALS
Lisa Johnson
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Ryan McLaughlin
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Mark Bernstein
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Political Animals and
Animal Politics
Edited by
Marcel Wissenburg
Professor of Political Theory, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
and
David Schlosberg
Professor of Environmental Politics, University of Sydney, Australia
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Marcel Wissenburg and
David Schlosberg 2014
All remaining chapters © respective authors 2014
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements v iii
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introducing Animal Politics and Political Animals 1
Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg
Part I The Politicization of the Animal
Advocacy Discourse
2 Rethinking the Human–Animal Divide in the Anthropocene 1 7
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
3 An Agenda for Animal Political Theory 3 0
Marcel Wissenburg
4 Public Reason and Animal Rights 44
Chad Flanders
Part II The Rapprochement between
Animal Ethics and Ecologism
5 Articulating Ecological Injustices of Recognition 6 1
Christie Smith
6 Ecological Justice for the Anthropocene 7 5
David Schlosberg
7 Animal Deliberation 90
Clemens Driessen
Part III The Introduction of Laws and Institutions
for the Benefit of Animals
8 Animal Party Politics in Parliament 107
Simon Otjes
9 The Limits of Species Advocacy 1 23
Kurtis Boyer
v
vi Contents
10 S laughter and Animal Welfarism in Sweden 1900–1944 135
Per-Anders Svärd
11 T he Rights of Nature: Theory and Practice 150
Mihnea Tanasescu
Bibliography 1 64
Index 1 79
List of Illustrations
Figures
8.1 Agriculture motions 116
8.2 Agriculture speech 1 17
8.3 Combined membership figures of Animal
Advocacy Organizations 1 19
8.4 Average number of stories on agriculture or animals 1 19
Table
8.1 Framing agriculture issues 1 18
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Acknowledgements
Most of the chapters in this book began life as papers presented in a
four-day workshop on Animal Politics and Political Animals at the ECPR
Joint Sessions of Workshops in Antwerp, Belgium, 10–15 April 2012.
On behalf of all the contributors to this volume, we would first like to
express our sincerest thanks to those participants whose papers we could
not include in our selection, but without whose comments, observa-
tions, suggestions and encouragement the texts that we did select would
not be half as good: Susan Boonman-Berson, Rob Garner, Margaretha
Hanes, Paul Lucardie, Kasper Ossenblok, Patrick Stouthuysen, Catherine
Zwetkoff.
In addition, we all drew inspiration from two not so usual contribu-
tions to an already exceptionally productive workshop. One was a truly
memorable lecture by, and dinner with, Michel Vandenbosch, co-founder
and president of GAIA, Belgium’s best known NGO that advocates
animal rights and animal welfare. Equally remarkable was the experi-
ence of being the subject of investigation of one of our own subjects
of investigation: the Netherlands Party for the Animals (PvdD). During
the second day of our workshop, we were joined by PvdD Senator Niko
Koffeman and by Karen Soeters, director of the Pierson Foundation, the
party’s scientific bureau. That day’s proceedings were filmed by Joost
de Haas and included in his prize-winning documentary on the PvdD
De Haas in de Marathon (The Hare in the Marathon), available at http://
www.dehaasindemarathon.nl/en/.
Productive academic opportunities such as this one do not fall from
the sky, nor are they created ex nihilo . We are fond to remember the
hospitality of the City and University of Antwerp and the excellent
work done by the local organizing committee from the Department
of Political Science. We owe the deepest gratitude to the ECPR as a
whole and the indefatigable staff of the Central Services in Colchester
in particular – without whom the Joint Sessions would not exist and the
academic world would have to do without the most productive, most
animating, most enjoyable, most memorable and most exhausting
of conferences. Thanks are also owed to the various chocolatiers and
bartenders of Antwerp, who helped to sustain us all over the course of
the workshop.
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Acknowledgements ix
Books such as this one do not fall from the sky, either. This one
would not exist if it were not for the extremely effective help and guid-
ance offered by ‘our’ people at Palgrave Macmillan: Melanie Blair and
Brendan George. We thank them not only for their assistance in the
production process, but, more importantly, for their support of broad-
ranging engagement with animal studies. Thanks also to Alix Pearce at
the University of Sydney for her thorough (and spirited) copy editing.
And a final appreciation must be noted. Co-authoring and co-editing
can sometimes be a laborious or conflict-ridden process, yet we have had
nothing of the sort – instead, from the beginnings of the idea of a work-
shop through to the completion of the edited manuscript, we have had
an engaging, productive and humorous relationship. We’ve learned a lot
and enjoyed doing it – academia doesn’t get much better than that.
– DS & MW
Sydney & Nijmegen
1 June 2014