Von Essen, Erica and Allen, Michael P.
(2017).
Solidarity Between Human and Non-Human Animals: Representing Animal Voices in Policy Deliberations.
Environmental communication. 11
, 641-653
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Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the bridging potential of "interspecies" solidarity between the often incommensurable ethics of care and justice. Indeed, we show that the Environmental Communication literature emphasizes feelings of care and compassion as vectors of responsibility taking for animals. But we also show that a growing field of Political Animal Rights suggest that such responsibility taking should instead be grounded in universalizable terms of justice. Our argument is that a dual conception of solidarity can bridge this divide: On the one hand, solidarity as a pre-political relation with animals and, on the other hand, as a political practice based on open public deliberation of universalizable claims to justice; that is, claims to justice advanced by human proxy representatives of vulnerable non-humans. Such a dual conception can both challenge and validate NGOs' claims to "speak on behalf of animals" in policy following the Aarhus Convention, indeed underwriting the Convention by insights from internatural communication in solidarity as relation, and by subjecting it to rational scrutiny in mini-publics in solidary as practice.
Authors/Creators: | Von Essen, Erica and Allen, Michael P. | ||||
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Title: | Solidarity Between Human and Non-Human Animals: Representing Animal Voices in Policy Deliberations | ||||
Series/Journal: | Environmental communication (1752-4040) | ||||
Year of publishing : | 2017 | ||||
Volume: | 11 | ||||
Page range: | 641-653 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 13 | ||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||
ISSN: | 1752-4040 | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||
Version: | Accepted version | ||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 509 Other Social Sciences > Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (Peace and Conflict Research and Studies on Sustainable Society) | ||||
Agrovoc terms: | interspecific competition, animal rights, ethics | ||||
Keywords: | solidarity, internatural communication, discourse ethics, proxy representation, mini-publics | ||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4476 | ||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4476 | ||||
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ID Code: | 14707 | ||||
Faculty: | LTV - Fakulteten för landskapsarkitektur, trädgårds- och växtproduktionsvetenskap | ||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development | ||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||
Deposited On: | 21 Nov 2017 09:32 | ||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2018 13:58 |
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