Aug 2026· Humanimalia· Vol 16, pp. 45-59· 0 citations· 19 references
Abstract
Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka do us a great service in reminding us that when thinking about the relevant scales of our political relations with animals, it is crucial that we are not stymied by limiting ideas of unitary nation-states. We ought to embrace the very different and often overlapping political relations and affinities that humans share with animals. And these in turn invite thinking through what new forms of polity might facilitate human-animal flourishing. But in so doing, we must confront the first question of politics: how can these new forms of polity be rendered legitimate to the individuals subject to them? In this paper, I focus primarily on how such polities might be rendered legitimate to the human members who will be burdened by such new forms of community. This, I argue, invites consideration of the important interplay between the individual and collective scales of our political relations with animals, and the importance of cultivating solidaristic feelings of affiliation and sacrifice between members.
The article pursues two interrelated objectives: first, to determine how a political theory that includes nonhuman animals (as specialists refer to all animals other than humans) can be constructed; and second, to demonstrate how those animals who are forcibly concealed may nonetheless exert influence on the ordinary p...
M. Mefed· Philosophical and Literary J...· 0 citations
What sort of ethos does democratic politics demand? While many political thinkers argue that democratic ethics should shape political judgments, the concept of ethos remains underdeveloped.
Appearances of Ethos responds to this gap in three ways. It begins by identifying the contours of the concept as it has appeared...
If political tyranny implies the exclusion of the people from public affairs, then freedom is the practice of common ownership of political institutions. Theodosiadis (2025:5-6) develops this approach by tracing its ancient Greek roots, clarifying its American traditions and identifying its institutional forms for a de...
The question of what motivates human behavior is at the heart of efforts to move communities and societies toward more sustainable, equitable, and just relations. Yet, theories of human behavior remain fragmented, contested, and often fail to fully explain why people do what they do. Here, I develop a “political ecol...
My essay draws attention to several little-known texts by Wittgenstein in which he addresses the processes which may precede a genocide. I seek to demonstrate that Wittgenstein’s thought contains resources that may be drawn on in confronting such ethical and political problems, and more specifically, in addressing issu...
The political capacity of marginalized people to act has long been a recurring topic in political and public discourse. While a substantial body of scholarship has documented everyday forms of resistance, informal solidarity, and collective organization among marginalized groups, public debates and parts of the academi...
C. Wimmer· Critica Sociologica· 0 citations
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