ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for a serious consideration of nonhuman resistance in the context of other-than-human animals status as live property in order to understand the violence of their property status. Not all nonhuman animals are constituted as property in the same way that farmed animals are. The legal status of "wild" or "free-roaming animals" is theorized in different ways. Although it is not a condition that all species experience, animals-as-property is a legal and material framework that reproduces a hierarchy of humans over other species. The chapter focuses on animal resistance to illuminate the violence of animals-as-property and make a call for new legal regimes that would take seriously animal agency and autonomy that is made visible in their efforts to resist. Thus, animal resistance can be productively read alongside other ethical measures of how other animals live and die in a multispecies world.
