Gender Studies 333MS - Advanced Seminar: 'Multi-Species Justice? Entangled Lives and Human Power'

How can we change animal exploitation and re-situate the human more equitably with other species? Through animal rights? Justice? Abolition? Dismantle human exceptionalism? Animal emancipation? Companionship? Co-existence? Stewardship? What are the uses and limits of the discourses from which critical animal studies borrows conceptually, for example: antiracism, feminism, disability studies, nationalism, transformative justice, and so on. We will explore different scenarios of human-nonhuman entanglements, such as training, rescue, the animal industrial complex, the politics of extinction, hunting, infection, predation, breeding/reproduction and others.

Prereq: 8 credits in Gender Studies, CST, CRPE, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Psycyhology, or Neuroscience.