Colonial Animality: Canadian Colonialism and the Human-Animal Relationship
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| Abstract |
Located at the juncture of critical animal studies and decolonial theory, this analysis contemplates the connections and entanglements between settler colonialism and animality in Canadian constitutional discourse. How are coloniality and anthropocentricism — and the borders they draw between humanity, infra-humanity, and non-humanity — (re)produced with and through one another in Canadian constitutional jurisprudence and discourse? The very concepts used to understand and dispute the legal status of non-human animals (property and personhood, humanity and citizenship, rights and sovereignty) are shot through with the coloniality of their genealogies (see, for example, Anghie 2007; Isin 2012). Canadian constitutional law and legal discourse — the juridical warp and woof of the settler colonial state — therefore serves as one productive site for investigating the underexplored relationship between settler colonialism and animality, and for thinking through the mutual salience of decolonial and animal liberation projects. |
| Submitter |
Mason N McLary HABRI Central |
| Date | 2017 |
| Publication Title | Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics |
| Pages | 16 |
| ISBN/ISSN | 978-1-910814-23-9 |
| Publisher | E-International Relations Publishing |
| Location of Publication | Bristol, England |
| URL | http://www.e-ir.info/2017/07/03/colonial-animality-canadian-colonialism-and-the-human-animal-relationship/ |
| Language | English |
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