ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |16 pages

Colonialism and animality

An introduction

part Section I|87 pages

Tensions and alliances between animal and decolonial activisms

part Section II|52 pages

Revisiting the stereotypes of Indigenous peoples’ relationships with animals

chapter 5|14 pages

Growling ontologies

Indigeneity, becoming-souls and settler colonial inaccessibility

chapter 6|28 pages

Beyond edibility

Towards a nonspeciesist, decolonial food ontology

part Section III|60 pages

Cultural perspectives

chapter 7|22 pages

He(a)rd

Animal cultures and anti-colonial politics

chapter 8|20 pages

Dingoes and dog whistling

A cultural politics of race and species in Australia

chapter 9|16 pages

Haunting pigs, swimming jaguars

Mourning, animals and ayahuasca

part Section IV|80 pages

Colonialism, animals, and the law

chapter 10|31 pages

Constitutional protections for animals

A comparative animal-centred and postcolonial reading

chapter 11|27 pages

Placing Angola

Racialization, anthropocentrism, and settler colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo