ABSTRACT
Questioning, in particular, the utility and efficacy of welfarism and animal rights, Donaldson and Kymlicka propose instead adapting human social and political structures to the lives of animals. Treating animals as citizens, they argue, is a more effective means by which to protect their interests. Their main focus is on the relational duties owed to animals which arise from specific relationships that have developed between us and them. Animals in the wild are compared to international relations between sovereign states. The chapter considers this political turn in animal rights studies, advanced also by Alistair Cochrane, and examines its practicality and worth.
