Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the
history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an …

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that US imperial expansion has been shaped by the
attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals …

" In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and,
by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the …

This article unpacks the idea of police as a “thin blue line” as narrating a story about the
police invention of the human through a civilizing and exterminating war against beasts. To …

Summoned by an anonymous Prosecutor, ten contemporary ethnographers gather in an
aging barn to hold a trial of Alice Goffman's controversial ethnography, On the Run. But …

Slavery and colonialism not only catalyzed the conscription of black people into
hegemonically imperialist and racialized conceptions of “modernity” and “universal …

Cary Wolfe begins his widely known book What Is Posthumanism?(2010) by announcing the
results of a Google search. He reports that at the time of his writing (summer 2008) the …

How does Sylvia Wynter's theory of the human depart from Western bio-centric and
teleological accounts of the human? To grapple with this question I clarify five key concepts …

Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L.
Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its …

Often stereotyped as being apathetic to the human suffering, the American vegan movement
has historically failed to build alliances with other social justice movements. As intersectional …