Author:
Donaldson Sue,Kymlicka Will
Abstract
Abstract
Because institutional constraints often preclude animal protection organizations (APOs) from taking an uncompromising public stand on animal rights, they are assumed to play a primarily meliorative rather than transformative role in the animal advocacy movement. This chapter questions this assumption, arguing that APOs can indeed contribute to genuine transformation through their own internal practices and ethos and through grassroots partnerships. One way to promote transformative change is to engage in “prefigurative” practices. Even within the current circumstances of profound injustice, it is possible to carve out moments or spaces for treating animals the way they should be treated in a (more) just society and establish the kinds of relationships with animals that would characterize a (more) just society. The chapter explores the scope for such prefigurative change within APOs in two main areas: (1) the creation of interspecies community and (2) the facilitation of animal agency.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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