Animals, Race, and Multiculturalism

Includes authors writing from both a Western and non-Western perspective, providing varied viewpoints on this controversial topic

Posits provocative new routes for the reconciliation of animal rights with those of cultural minorities, historically conflicting concepts

Offers new normative frameworks to address multiculturalism, racism and animals

Autorentext

Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues is a research fellow at the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) of Sun Yat-sen University, China. He has published on multiculturalism, terrorism and animals.

Les Mitchell, PhD is a Hunterstoun Fellow of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Africa.

Inhalt

1.Introduction; Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues and Les Mitchell.- 2. Group Privilege and Political Division; Tony Milligan.- 3. Political Liberalism, Human Cultures;Angie Pepper.- 4.Is Multiculturalism Good for Animals?; Maneesha Deckha.- 5. Legal Protection for Whales; Rachel Nussbaum Wichert and Martha C. Nussbaum.- 6. Animals and the challenges of ethnocentrism; Kai Horsthemke.- 7.Racism, speciesism, and suffering; Abraham Olivier and Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues.- 8.Animals off the menu; Michael Glover.- 9. Do political parties instrumentalise animal rights?; Herman Lelieveldt.- 10. Kaporos; Lisa Kemmerer.- 11. Islam and Animal Ethics in the Postdomestic Context; Magfirah Dahlan.- 12.Duties toward Animals versus Rights to Culture; Thaddeus Metz.- 13. Afterword; Will Kymlicka.- Index.