Description
Book SynopsisThe lives of non-human animals, their ways of being and seeing, their experiences and knowledge, and their relationships with each other, continue to be ignored, discounted, written over and destroyed by anthropocentric practices and endeavours. Within the vestiges of colonialism, this silence and occlusion co-opts and consumes animals, physically and culturally, into the servitude of human interests, and selective narratives of history and progress. Decolonising Animals brings together critical interrogations, case studies and creative explorations that identify and examine how non-human animals are affected by and respond to colonial structures and processes. Included in this collection are the perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, artists and activists and the ways in which they have questioned colonial ways of knowing, engaging with and representing animals. Importantly, the book presents suggestions for how humans can decolonise their relationships with non-human animals and with each other.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; About the contributors; Introduction: Unsettling subjects by Rick De Vos; The horse is Indigenous to North America: why silencing the horse is so; important to the settler project by Kelsey Dayle John; "'Red I am'": names for dingoes in science and story by Rowena Lennox; Reading Toni Morrison close and far: decolonising literary animal studies by; Susan McHugh; Mass extinction and responsibility by Katarina Gray-Sharp; Crypsis, discovery and subjectivity: unsettling fish histories by Rick De Vos; Speculative shit: bison world-making and dung pat pluralitiesby Danielle; Taschereau Mamers; The jaguar gaze: is it possible to decolonise humananimal relationships; through archaeology? by Ana Paula Motta and Martin Porr; The birdwomen speak: storied transformation and non-human narrative; perspectives by Kirsty Dunn; Index.
