Colonialism and Animality

Kelly Struthers Montford is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Chloë Taylor is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

Introduction: Unsettling Relationships in Colonial Contexts; SECTION I: Tensions and Alliances Between Aninal and Decolonial Activisms; 1. An Indigenous Critique of Critical Animal Studies; 2. Tensions in Contemporary Indigenous and Animal Advocacy Struggles: The Commercial Seal Hunt as a Case Study; 3. Makah Whaling and the (Non)Ecological Indian; SECTION II: Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples’ Relationships with Animals; 4. Veganism and Mi'kmaq Legends; 5. Growling Ontologies: Indigeneity, Becoming-Souls and Settler Colonial Inaccessibility; 6. Beyond Edibility: Towards a Nonspeciesist, Decolonial Food Ontology; SECTION III: Cultural Perspectives; 7. He(a)rd: Animal Cultures and Anti-Colonial Politics; 8. Dingoes and Dog-Whistling: A Cultural Politics of Race and Species in Australia; 9. Haunting Pigs, Swimming Jaguars: Mourning, Animals and Ayahuasca; SECTION IV: Colonialism, Animals, and the Law; 10. Constitutional Protections for Animals: A Comparative Animal-Centered and Postcolonial Reading; 11. Placing Angola: Racialization, Anthropocentrism, and Settler Colonialism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo; 12. Toward A Theory of Multi-Species Carcerality.