Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities (space, Materiality And The Normative)
by Irus Braverman /
2015 / English / PDF
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Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of
animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of
animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended
to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework
that has afforded human rights before it.
Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of
animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of
animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended
to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework
that has afforded human rights before it.Animals,
Biopolitics, Law
Animals,
Biopolitics, Law envisions the possibility of lively
legalities that move beyond the humanist perspective. Drawing on
an array of expertise―from law, geography, and anthropology,
through animal studies and posthumanism, to science and
technology studies―this interdisciplinary collection asks what,
in legal terms, it means to be human and nonhuman, what it means
to govern and to be governed, and what are the ethical and
political concerns that emerge in the project of governing not
only human but also more-than-human life.
envisions the possibility of lively
legalities that move beyond the humanist perspective. Drawing on
an array of expertise―from law, geography, and anthropology,
through animal studies and posthumanism, to science and
technology studies―this interdisciplinary collection asks what,
in legal terms, it means to be human and nonhuman, what it means
to govern and to be governed, and what are the ethical and
political concerns that emerge in the project of governing not
only human but also more-than-human life.