Colonialism and Animality

Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

Kelly Struthers Montford, Chloë Taylor, Kelly Struthers Montford, Chloë Taylor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781032173818
• eBook ISBN: 9781000046984
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected.

Composed of 12 chapters by an international team of specialists plus a Foreword by Dinesh Wadiwel, the book is divided into four themes:

• Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms
• Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples' Relationships with Animals
• Cultural Perspectives
• Colonialism, Animals, and the Law

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, as well as postdoctoral scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native Studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as Cultural Studies, Animal Law and Critical Criminology.

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” denote endnotes.

• ableism 142, 144, 149
• activism i, 4, 6, 91, 163
  • single-issue activism 4, 6
  • Toronto Pig Save 212; see also protest
• actor network theory 172
• Adams, Carol 103, 132, 201
• agency xi, xv, 27, 30, 34, 41–4, 47–8, 64, 70, 95, 119, 124, 126, 128, 159, 192, 230, 268, 269
• agriculture xvii, xxiv, 8, 10–11, 16, 21–2, 43, 53, 55, 108, 129, 132–3, 135–6, 139–41, 147–9, 162, 207, 212, 229, 236, 254–5, 269, 277–86, 288
  • agricultural equipment 55
• Alaskan Inupiat 66
• Algonquin 136, 138–9
• alimentary ableism 144
• alimentary speciesism 144
• all my relations 117, 174
• Alzheimer’s 209–10
• Amazon, the 207, 209
• American Indian and Alaska Native Policy 64
• Anderson, Virginia 12n14, 12n15, 136, 138, 139, 141, 15...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of contributors
• Foreword: thinking “critically” about animals after colonialism
• Acknowledgements
• Colonialism and animality: an introduction
• Section I Tensions and alliances between animal and decolonial activisms
• Section II Revisiting the stereotypes of Indigenous peoples’ relationships with animals
• Section III Cultural perspectives
• Section IV Colonialism, animals, and the law
• Index