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Animals as Legal Beings Maneesha Deckha

Animals as Legal Beings By Maneesha Deckha

Animals as Legal Beings by Maneesha Deckha


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In the ongoing quest to protect animals from exploitation, this book discusses beingness, as an alternative to personhood, as the more impactful and animal-centered legal status that recognizes and values animals for who they are.

Animals as Legal Beings Summary

Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders by Maneesha Deckha

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.

About Maneesha Deckha

Maneesha Deckha is a professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria.

Table of Contents

Moving Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Legal Status for Animals 1. No Escape: Anti-Cruelty Law's Property Foundations 2. What's Wrong with Personhood?: The Humanizing Impact of Anthropos 3. Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Legal Ontology 4. Beingness: A New Legal Subjectivity for Animals 5. Liberal Humanism Repackaged? 6. Conclusion

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NGR9781487525873
9781487525873
1487525877
Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders by Maneesha Deckha
New
Paperback
University of Toronto Press
2021-01-04
348
N/A
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