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Caring for postcolonial animals

Brings, Rebecca

2023

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  • Título:
    Caring for postcolonial animals
  • Autor: Brings, Rebecca
  • Assuntos: animal welfare ; biotechnology ; decolonization ; legibility ; postcolonial animal ; sustainability
  • Notas: https://hdl.handle.net/11244/338990
  • Descrição: “Caring for Postcolonial Animals” hopes to show that institutionalized discourses of animal welfare in the postcolony and the kind of representations these produce make it difficult to think of its many “humane” ideologies as institutionalized violence as well as an extension of colonial, imperial modes of governing. Animal welfarism’s western dominance and explicit advocacy agenda often overwrite alternative and non-capitalist relationalities with the animal including black ecological perspectives not based in welfarism. Particularly in the reconciliation with national development, governmental policies and their instituting discourses increasingly mark the centrality of the animal for economic growth and global articulations of postcolonial nations. In this network, non-capitalistic or non-extractive relationships appear unreasonable in light of the animals’ potential for the alleviation of poverty, equity, and green futures. The limitations of animal welfarism, and other discourses that accept the increasing enclosures, manipulation, and disposability of the animal in light of the ostensibly sustainable redesign of global extractive processes, are irreducible. Animal welfare and other instituting narratives of sustainability are deeply imbricated by what I call the necropolitics of the animal. The discourses’ emancipatory vision relies on the adaption of human organized relationality and the hope of global moral unity in more just futures. Animal advocacy, I suggest, is overrepresented through animal welfarism and animal rights’ focus on inclusion; the violent and invisible integration of the animal into the global-capitalist apparatus consumed for world- and live-making. This shapes the representation and conceptualization of the animal, the ideological frameworks of its care, and how such care is reconciled with efforts and pathways for decolonization.
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2023
  • Idioma: Inglês
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