Global Animal Law from the Margins: International Trade in Animals and their Bodies

This book critically examines the emerging field of global animal law from an intersectional ethical framework, highlighting the need to engage perspectives from the Global South, Indigenous, and marginalized communities. It proposes a new, interdisciplinary second wave of animal ethics that goes beyond the dominant concern with animal welfare and rights, incorporating marginalised viewpoints and challenging anthropocentrism and colonialism.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 01 August 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the emerging field of global animal law, offering a critical analysis from an intersectional ethical framework. By reconceptualizing global animal law, the author challenges the prevailing Western perspectives, arguing that it fails to adequately engage views from the Global South, as well as from Indigenous and other marginalized communities. The book traces this imbalance back to the early development of animal laws, which were primarily shaped by concerns related to international trade and thus exhibited an anthropocentric and colonial bias. In response, the book proposes a new, interdisciplinary, and second wave of animal ethics. This approach incorporates marginalized viewpoints, elevating the field beyond the traditional focus on animal welfare and rights. Drawing on diverse concepts such as decolonial thought, earth jurisprudence, intersectionality theory, and posthumanism, the book offers a fundamental rethinking of the foundations of global animal law.

The book's critical yet practical approach to global animal law appeals to a wide range of experts, including animal law and environmental law practitioners, legal theorists, and scholars in animal studies and ecology. It provides valuable insights into the complex interplay between human societies, animals, and the natural world, and offers a roadmap for building a more inclusive and equitable legal framework for the protection and welfare of all living beings.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032226989