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PDF – JCAS Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2015 Volume 13, Issue 1, 2015 Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X Journal for Critical Animal Studies Editorial Executive Board _____________________________________________________________________________ Interim Editor Dr. Sean Parson [email protected] Editorial Board For a complete list of the members of the Editorial Board please see the JCAS link on the Institute for Critical Animal Studies website: http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/?page_id=393 Cover Art Photograph from by John Lupinacci with permission. Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2015 i Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X JCAS Volume 13, Issue 1, October 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Issue Introduction………………………………………………….………………………………...1-4 ESSAYS Animals within the Rousseauian Republic Parker Schill………………… ………………………………………………………………..6-32 Tensions between Multicultural Rights and the Rights of Domesticated and Liminal Animals: An Analysis of Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson’s Philosophy Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues……………………………………………………….…………….33-65 Home is Where the Food Is: Barriers to Vegetarianism and Veganism in the Domestic Sphere Kathryn Asher and Elizabeth Cherry…………………………………………...…………….66-91 Challenging Sexism while Supporting Speciesism: The Views of Estonian Feminist on Animal Liberation and Its Links to Feminism Kadri Aavik and Dagmar Kase …………………………..…………………………………92-127 FILM REVIEWS Review: Interstellar (2014) Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues ………………………………….………………………………128-135 Review: This is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology (2013) by Will Anderson Joel Helfrich……………………………………………….………………………………136-142 BOOK REVIEWS Review: Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict (2013) by David Nibbert Jake Dionne..........................................................................................................................143-150 Review: Growl: Life Lessons, Hard Truths, and Bold Strategies from an Animal Advocate by Kim Stallwood Norm Phelps………..……………………………………………………………………...151-161 JCAS Submission Guidelines …………………………………………………………...162-163 Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2015 ii Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X Issue Introduction On July 1st 2015, Dr. Walter Palmer, a Minneapolis based dentist, traveled from the tundra of Minnesota to the semi arid savanna of Zimbabwe to stalk, poach, and kill an endangered African Lion. The lion they murdered was Cecil, an internationally known symbol for the African Conservation movement. The ensuing media storm on the topic—from the crying eyes of late night host Jimmy Kimmel, to countless Facebook walls, to the righteously enraged protestors in front of Dr. Palmers house and dental office—opened up a dialogue on the way that our society views and values animals in ways that are rarely seen in Western media. While much of the coverage focused on the individuals involved—both Cecil and Dr. Walter Palmer—rarely did the discussion extend beyond the superficial and engage with the social, political, and economic systems of power that were operating in this case. This is the value for Critical Animal Studies (CAS). This field is essential for expanding the depth and quality of the cultural analysis around the intersections of speciesism, racism, capitalism, patriarchy, able-ism, ecocide, and other destructive forces in contemporary society. Unlike other supposed “critical studies” fields though, CAS scholarship is not simply concerned with intellectual exercises and philosophic inquiry. Rather, CAS scholarship is actively engaged in connecting these ideas with diverse every-day struggles for total liberation. The four articles in this issue are all committed to the mission of critical animal studies and as such put forth interdisciplinary work that engages with essential and important topics for total liberation. This issue does just that as the four articles involved can be seen to address two topics: the relationship between animals and political rights and the importance of a feminist analysis to animal liberation politics. Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2015 1 Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X Within the first topic we have the articles by Parker Schill and Luis Rodrigues. In “Animals Within the Rousseauian Republic” Schill provides a provocative and philosophically useful reading of Rousseau’s work on political theory. While most analysis of Rousseau’s work seems to portray him as a speciesist thinker who is primarily concerned with the good of the human political community, Schill’s deep reading of Rousseau’s work provides a counter reading of the great philosopher’s work. Schill provides a reading of Rousseau that understands nonhuman animals as part of the political community, much like children, and therefore their interests and rights are part of the general will. The most basic right afforded by all in the political community is the right to live and be safe, and as such, Schill argues that through Rousseau a powerful philosophic argument can be made for animal rights. Connected to this sentiment is Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues’ article “Tensions between Multicultural Rights and the Rights of Domesticated and Liminal Animals: An Analysis of Will Kymlicka and Sue Donaldson’s Philosophy.” In this piece, Rodrigues puts William Kymlicka’s work on multiculturalism and community rights in dialogue with his later work (with Sue Donaldson) on Animal Rights. Rodrigues shares that, while there are no theoretical contradictions between the two phases of Kymlicka’s works, in practice there exist important tensions that end up putting animal rights into conflict with a liberal, tolerant multicultural politics—most importantly, the protection of community rights that allow a group to reject the rights of a nonhuman to safety from death and harm. These two pieces, when put in dialogue, provide a powerful conversation on the potential and pitfalls of expanding political protections and rights to nonhumans. While the first topic provides a discussion around political rights, the second explores the ways in which patriarchal power and gendered social norms impact activism and lived choices. In “Home Is Where the Food Is: Barriers to Vegetarianism and Veganism in the Domestic Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2015 2 Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X Sphere” by Kathryn Asher and Elizabeth Cherry, the authors provide a comprehensive analysis of the barriers that exist within family and friend circles around becoming vegetarian and vegan in Western society. In their analysis, Asher and Cherry explain that gender and patriarchal norms around food serve as strong barriers to people changing their diets. Their work is especially important for animal advocacy groups trying to change people’s diets. Historically, these groups have tended to target women, since their social role within the domestic sphere would have a ripple impact throughout the family, but this article questions that assumption. Instead, Asher and Cherry provide a deep intersectional analysis of speciesism and gender that shows how women might be forced to subordinate their ethical values in order to meet the meat and dairy demands of their male partners. Finally, Kadri Aavik and Dagmar Kase explore the ways in which the Estonian feminist movement ended up supporting speciesm in their article “Challenging Sexism while Supporting Speciesism: The Views of Estonian Feminists on Animal Liberation and Its Links to Feminism.” This piece, which provides an empirical examination of Estonian feminists, highlights the ways in which a feminist politics not grounded in an intersectional analysis of nonhuman animal issues can ultimately reinforce a dominant human- centered political project. Their analysis provides important insights for animal rights feminists on how to expand the feminist conversation to include nonhuman animal issues. These two articles both highlight the importance of exploring and engaging in an intersectional critical animal studies, one that understands the ways in which patriarchal power intersects with speciesism in complicated and nuanced ways. Doing so helps us understand the ways in which gendered power relations are barriers to changing ones ethical decisions around food while at the same time illuminating the complex ways in which mainstream liberal feminism might actually be buttressing and supporting human supremacy. Volume 13, Issue 1, December 2015 3 Journal for Critical Animal Studies ISSN: 1948-352X On more practical concerns, this will be the only issue for the Journal of Critical Animal Studies that I am putting out as interim editors. I joined on as interim editors for the journal during the Summer of 2015, taking over the journal after Dr. Susan Thomas and Dr. Lindgren Johnson stepped down as editors. I believe the current issue expands on the work that they did as editors to put together an intellectually challenging and engaged work that pushes CAS forward. There are currently no editors scheduled to take over the journal after this issue, and for that reason, there is a moratorium for article submissions until August 2016, or at least until the board for the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) can recruit an editorial team that will be able to carry on the strong tradition of radical scholarship published in JCAS. If you are interested, please contact John Lupinacci ([email protected]) or stay updated by visiting the JCAS website at http://journalforcriticalanimalstudies.org/. Finally, this issue is dedicated to Norm Phelps who
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