ABSTRACT
Politics has been traditionally understood as an exclusively human endeavor. In this chapter, the author explores the different ways in which non-human animals enter human politics, featuring not only as objects of political calculation but also as political agents whose acts have helped determine the shape of human-animal relations. Through readings of literary representations of animal politics, the chapter proposes a future politics of entanglement in which the categorical divide historically installed between human and non-human animals comes undone as we try to head off catastrophic biodiversity loss in warming planet.
