Decolonising Animals

Dr Rick Vos

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Sydney University Press
02 May 2023

Philosophy; Animals & society

Series: Animal Publics

The lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue to be ignored, discounted, written over and destroyed by anthropocentric practices and endeavours. Within the vestiges of colonialism, this silence and occlusion co-opts and consumes animals, physically and culturally, into the servitude of human interests, and selective narratives of history and progress.

Decolonising Animals brings together critical interrogations, case studies and creative explorations that identify and examine how non-human animals are affected by and respond to colonial structures and processes. Included in this collection are the perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, artists and activists and the ways in which they have questioned colonial ways of knowing, engaging with and representing animals. Importantly, the book presents suggestions for how humans can decolonise their relationships with non-human animals — and with each other.

Edited by: Dr Rick Vos
Imprint: Sydney University Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9781743328583
ISBN 10: 1743328583
Series: Animal Publics
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 02 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements About the contributors Introduction: Unsettling subjects by Rick De Vos The horse is Indigenous to North America: why silencing the horse is so important to the settler project by Kelsey Dayle John 'Red I am ': names for dingoes in science and story by Rowena Lennox Reading Toni Morrison close and far: decolonising literary animal studies by Susan McHugh Mass extinction and responsibility by Katarina Gray-Sharp Crypsis, discovery and subjectivity: unsettling fish histories by Rick De Vos Speculative shit: bison world-making and dung pat pluralities by Danielle Taschereau Mamers The jaguar gaze: is it possible to decolonise human-animal relationships through archaeology? by Ana Paula Motta and Martin Porr The birdwomen speak: storied transformation and non-human narrative perspectives by Kirsty Dunn Index

Rick De Vos conducts research in animal studies and in anthropogenic extinction, in particular its cultural and historical significance and the ways in which it is articulated and practiced. He is an adjunct research fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University in Western Australia, and before that coordinated the Research and Graduate Studies Programs at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin. He is a member of the Extinction Studies Working Group and has published essays on extinction in various academic journals and essay collections, including Knowing Animals (2007), Animal Death (2013), Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations (2017), and The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2018). With Matthew Chrulew he edited a special issue of Cultural Studies Review in 2019 entitled Extinction Studies: Stories of Unravelling and Reworlding .

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