ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses contemporary and futuristic scholarship in anthropology, philosophy, law and narratology to show the change of perception concerning nature and nonhuman animals. These changes question the paradigms that developed in the course of European modernity and created paradigms that justified the human intervention of destructive magnitude. In this chapter, we also see how colonialism spread those paradigms to the rest of the world and what the impact of the combination of colonialism and modernity was on the lives of nonhuman animals. Contemporary thinkers also foreground the need for new kinds of laws that can protect the rights of nonhuman animals.
