Animals as legal beings : contesting anthropocentric legal orders / Maneesha Deckha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deckha, Maneesha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--Law and legislation--Canada.

Animal welfare.

Animals--Law and legislation--Canada.

Animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness." In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems. Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I – Beyond Property and Personhood: Contesting Legal Objectification and Humanization

1 No Escape: Anti-cruelty Laws’ Property Foundations

2 What’s Wrong with Personhood? The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos

3 Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology

Part II – Animals as Beings: In Pursuit of a New Post-Anthropocentric Legal Order

4 Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals

5 Liberal Humanism Repackaged?

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3825-1

1-4875-3824-3

OCLC:

1248759383