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This volume takes ending the oppression of other animals seriously and confronts the question, 'What would happen to all the animals?' by showcasing real, promissory, and imagined counter-sites or
heterotopia where animals 'happen' in different ways, free of anthropocentric orders of value and purpose.
List of contents
Introduction
Section 1. Relational reconfigurations in present futures
1. Sites of Vegan Placemaking: A Celebration of Multispecies Alliances at the Borderlands
2. Careful Care Towards Animal Liberation for Feral Pigeons and Beyond
3. Unveiling Shared Histories: Crafting Sanctuary and the Work of Care in Troubled Domestic Domains
4. Non-ridden horses, implanted chickens, and vegan sanctuaries: The liberatory promises and limits of animal heterotopias.
Section 2. Conceptual and political re-ordering
5. The Magpies: Reflections on Liminality, Domestication, and Animal Agency
6. Dog Proposals: Participatory Design, Playfulness, and Multispecies Futures
7. The Radical Praxis of Equity: Mutual Interdependence and an Ethic of Responsibility
Section 3. Subversion through radical storytelling and restorying
8. Opening Aquaria
9. Beyond the Farm - Towards Multispecies Anarcho-Communities
10. The Post-human Ontology of Gothic Enviro-toons: Defying Anthropo-denial in
Watership Down,
The Plague Dogs and
Padak11. Laugh to Liberate: Futurabilities of Posthumanist Comedy
Section 4. Personal shifts and transformations
12. Love Beyond the Species Divide in Nizami Ganjavi's
Layla and Majnun13. Choosing Snakes: Towards unhampered hospitality
14. A New Pedagogy of Sharing Multispecies Sentience: Coexisting in Spaces of Love and Compassion
Afterword: A methodological side-note
About the author
Paula Arcari is an independent scholar living in Melbourne Australia, and a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2019-2022) hosted by the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of
Making Sense of 'Food' Animals: A Critical Exploration of the Persistence of 'Meat' published in 2019.
Summary
This volume takes ending the oppression of other animals seriously and confronts the question, ‘What would happen to all the animals?’ by showcasing real, promissory, and imagined counter-sites or heterotopia where animals ‘happen’ in different ways, free of anthropocentric orders of value and purpose.
