Reorienting Strategies for Animal Justice

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to explore certain dominant strategies that are at work in contemporary struggles for animal justice, and to suggest that one of the most promising approaches can be found among those who place animal justice struggles alongside other radical non- and post-anthropocentric movements. In particular, it is argued that animal justice struggles might best be understood not as stand-alone critiques of speciesism, but as one important manifestation of a group of related struggles against anthropocentrism, where anthropocentrism is understood as an apparatus that produces problematic divisions in and among human beings on the one hand and between human beings and animals as well as the rest of the more-than-human world on the other hand.