Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

Kelly Struthers Montford · Chloë Taylor

Mar 2020 · Routledge

About this eBook

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected.

Composed of 12 chapters by an international team of specialists plus a Foreword by Dinesh Wadiwel, the book is divided into four themes:

• Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms
• Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships with Animals
• Cultural Perspectives
• Colonialism, Animals, and the Law

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, as well as postdoctoral scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native Studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as Cultural Studies, Animal Law and Critical Criminology.

About the author

Kelly Struthers Montford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Chloë Taylor is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.