Groupe de lecture: « Animals and the Right to Politics » de Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Joignez-vous à notre groupe de lecture interdisciplinaire sur le livre Animals and the Right to Politics de Sue Donaldson et Will Kymlicka publié par l’Oxford University Press.

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Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka ont publié Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011) une contribution importante au tournant politique des théories du droit animal. 

À propos du livre Animals and the Right to Politics (en Anglais): 

The assumption that only humans can engage in politics – that only humans are ‘zoon politikon’ – is foundational to the Western tradition of political philosophy. While there is increasing recognition of animals’ moral status (both within moral philosophy and at the level of public opinion), animals are not recognized as political subjects. This carefully researched but accessibly written volume – following on from the authors’ earlier book Zoopolis – argues that animals too have a right to politics: a right to be recognized as political subjects and agents, and as members of political communities entitled to collective self-determination. The book draws on recent scientific work on animal societies, cultures, and decision-making, as well as recent work by political theorists rethinking ideas of agency and community – especially the significance of emplaced and embodied encounters and relationships to the activity of politics. Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka draw a picture of what it would mean to create spaces and practices, not only for politics conducted by humans on behalf of animals, but also politics with and by animals on their own terms. It then explores how this approach could inform a wide range of contemporary debates in human-animal relations, including wildlife conservation, urban planning, and animal labour.

Première séance: 18 juin, 2026 12h30 – 14h30

Part A: Context

1. The Challenge – Political Exclusion

2. Political Wardship

3. Resistance

4. The Cosmopolitan Temptation                                        

Deuxième séance: 2 juillet 2026 12h30 – 14h30

Part B: Theory

5.   Political Animals

6.   Bounded Communities

7.   Political Agency                                                             

Troisième séance: 16 juillet, 2026 12h30 – 14h30

Part C: Applications

8.   Animal Agora

9.   Diplomacy in the Wild

10.  Multispecies Commons

11.   Realistic Utopias

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Co-organisé avec le Social Justice Centre à l’Université de Concordia, le Research Centre in Ethics (CRÉ), le Groupe de recherche en éthique animale et environnementale (GREEA), l’ Observatoire québécois en droit animalier (OQDA), Canadian Society for Critical Animal Studies (CCAS) et l’ APPLE Animals in in philosophy, politics, law, and ethics research group.