Kelly Struthers Montford - Colonialism and Animality (Routledge Advances in Critical Diversities)

The fields of settler colonial, decolonial, and postcolonial studies, as well as Critical Animal Studies are growing rapidly, but how do the implications of these endeavours intersect? Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected.

Composed of 12 chapters by an international team of specialists plus a Foreword by Dinesh Wadiwel, the book is divided into four themes:

• Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms

• Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples Relationships with Animals

• Cultural Perspectives

• Colonialism, Animals, and the Law

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, activists, as well as postdoctoral scholars, working in the areas of Critical Animal Studies, Native Studies, postcolonial and critical race studies, with particular chapters being of interest to scholars and students in other fields, such as Cultural Studies, Animal Law, Critical Prison Studies, and Critical Criminology.

Kelly Struthers Montford is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Chlo Taylor is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Series Editors: Yvette Taylor and Sally Hines

5 Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities

Eleanor Formby

6 Marginal Bodies, Trans Utopias

Caterina Nirta

7 Sexualities Research

Critical Interjections, Diverse Methodologies, and Practical Applications

Edited by Andrew King, Ana Cristina Santos and Isabel Crowhurst

8 Queer Business

Queering Organization Sexualities

Nick Rumens

9 Queer in Africa

LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism

Edited by Zethu Matebeni, Surya Monro and Vasu Reddy

10 Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

A History of the Present

Sonja Erikainen

11 Colonialism and Animality

Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

Edited by Kelly Struthers Montford and Chlo Taylor

12 Disability and Animality

Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

Edited by Stephanie Jenkins, Kelly Struthers Montford, and Chlo Taylor

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Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies

Edited by
Kelly Struthers Montford
and Chlo Taylor

First published 2020

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Names: Montford, Kelly Struthers, editor. | Taylor, Chlo, 1976 editor.
Title: Colonialism and animality : anti-colonial perspectives in critical animal studies / edited by Kelly Struthers Montford and Chlo Taylor.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. |
Series: Routledge advances in critical diversities | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019054020 (print) | LCCN 2019054021 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Animal rights. | Imperialism. | Speciesism. | Human-animal relationships.
Classification: LCC HV4708 .C655 2020 (print) | LCC HV4708 (ebook) | DDC 179/.3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054020
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019054021

ISBN: 978-0-367-85612-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-01389-1 (ebk)

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Dedicated to the memory of the animal residents of Farm Animal Rescue and Rehoming Movement (FARRM) who died in the Spring of 2019. The human and animal residents at FARRM were integral to the conference from which this volume emerges, generously opening their homes and allowing us the joy of their company.

KELLY STRUTHERS MONTFORD AND CHLO TAYLOR

Section I
Tensions and alliances between animal and decolonial activisms

BILLY-RAY BELCOURT

DARREN CHANG

CLAIRE JEAN KIM

Section II
Revisiting the stereotypes of Indigenous peoples relationships with animals

MARGARET ROBINSON

VANESSA WATTS

KELLY STRUTHERS MONTFORD AND CHLO TAYLOR

Section III
Cultural perspectives

LAUREN CORMAN

FIONA PROBYN-RAPSEY

ALEXANDRA ISFAHANI-HAMMOND

Section IV
Colonialism, animals, and the law

MANEESHA DECKHA

KATHRYN GILLESPIE

KELLY STRUTHERS MONTFORD

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a PhD candidate and 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar at the Department of English and Film Studies in the University of Alberta; his doctoral project is a creative-theoretical one called The Conspiracy of NDN Joy. He is also a Rhodes Scholar and holds an MSt in Womens Studies from the University of Oxford. In the First Nations Youth category, Belcourt received a 2019 Indspire Award, which is the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows on its own leaders. Billy-Rays debut book of poems, This Wound Is a World (Frontenac House 2017), won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize (making him the youngest winner ever) and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. It was also named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards. This Wound Is a World was a finalist for the 2018 Governor Generals Literary Award for Poetry, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the 2018 Raymond Souster Award, both of the latter via the Canadian League of Poets, and was named by CBC Books as the best Canadian poetry collection of 2017.

Darren Chang is an independent scholar who completed an MA in political philosophy and Critical Animal Studies at Queens University in 2017, under the supervision of Will Kymlicka. Darrens MA research explored how farmed animal sanctuaries and animal rights/liberation activists could overcome the speciesist zoning bylaws segregating farmed animals and excluding them from urban spaces, while invisibilizing and confining them to rural agricultural zones. Darren has been participating in grassroots animal rights/liberation activism since 2011.