Zoopolis
a political theory of animal rights
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Author
Contributions
- Kymlicka, Will - Contributor
Publication
2011 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
82,250 words, Guess
Page Count
329 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivezoopolispolitica0000dona
- ISBN-139780199599660
- ISBN-100199599661
- Library of Congress Control Number2011410664
- OCLC Control Number713621604
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780199599660
- Open LibraryOL25274589M
Classifications
- DDC179.3
- LCCHV4708 .D662 2011
- LCCHV4708 .D665 2011
and 2 more
- LCCHV4708
- LCCHV4708 .D66 2011
Description
Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the real of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the relational obligations that arise from the varied ways that animals relate to human societies and institutions. Building on recent developments in the political theory of group-differentiated citizenship, Zoopolis introduces us to the genuine "political animal." It argues that different types of animals stand in different relationships to human political communities. Domesticated animals should be seen as full members of human-animal mixed communities, participating in the cooperative project of shared citizenship. Wilderness animals, by contrast, form their own sovereign communities entitled to protection against colonization, invasion, domination, and other threats to self-determination. "Liminal" animals who are wild but live in the midst of human settlement (such as crows or raccoons) should be seen as "denizens", residents of our societies, but not fully included in rights and responsibilities of citizenship. To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights, but we inevitably and appropriately have very different relations with them, with different types of obligations. Humans and animals are inextricably bound in a complex web of relationships, and Zoopolis offers an original and profoundly affirmative vision of how to ground this complex web of relations on principles of justice and compassion.
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