Societies | |
Animal Bodies, Colonial Subjects: (Re)Locating Animality in Decolonial Thought | |
Billy-Ray Belcourt1  | |
[1]Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada | |
[2] E-Mail | |
关键词: decolonization; animal ethics; settler colonialism; white supremacy; neoliberalism; | |
DOI : 10.3390/soc5010001 | |
来源: mdpi | |
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【 摘 要 】
In this paper, I argue that animal domestication, speciesism, and other modern human-animal interactions in North America are possible because of and through the erasure of Indigenous bodies and the emptying of Indigenous lands for settler-colonial expansion. That is, we cannot address animal oppression or talk about animal liberation without naming and subsequently dismantling settler colonialism and white supremacy as political machinations that require the simultaneous exploitation and/or erasure of animal and Indigenous bodies. I begin by re-framing animality as a politics of space to suggest that animal bodies are made intelligible in the settler imagination on stolen, colonized, and re-settled Indigenous lands. Thinking through Andrea Smith’s logics of white supremacy, I then re-center anthropocentrism as a racialized and speciesist site of settler coloniality to re-orient decolonial thought toward animality. To critique the ways in which Indigenous bodies and epistemologies are at stake in neoliberal re-figurings of animals as settler citizens, I reject the colonial politics of recognition developed in Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka’s recent monograph,
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