A Defense of animal citizens and sovereigns

Donaldson, Sue; Kymlicka, Will

A Defense of animal citizens and sovereigns

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Donaldson, S, Kymlicka, W. A Defense of animal citizens and sovereigns. 2013. url: http://www.raco.cat/index.php/LEAP/article/view/294786

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Abstract

In their commentaries on Zoopolis, Alasdair Cochrane and Oscar Horta raise several challenges to our argument for a “political theory of animal rights”, and to the specific models of animal citizenship and animal sovereignty we offer. In this reply, we focus on three key issues: 1) the need for a groupdifferentiated theory of animal rights that takes seriously ideas of membership in bounded communities, as against more “cosmopolitan” or “cosmo- cosmopolitan” or “cosmo- cosmopolitan” or “cosmo- ” or “cosmo- or “cosmozoopolis” alternatives that minimize the moral significance of boundaries and membership; 2) the challenge of defining the nature and scope of wild animal sovereignty; and 3) the problem of policing nature and humanitarian intervention to reduce suffering in the wild.