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MANCEPT / MANCEPT Workshops / MANCEPT Workshops 2023 / List of Panels (A-Z) 2023 / Animal Politics: Peace, Conflict, and Violence

Animal Politics: Peace, Conflict and Violence

Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton); Eva Meijer (University of Amsterdam); Josh Milburn (Loughborough University)

Humanities Bridgeford Street Building: Room G.6

Animals face violence at human hands. Animals inflict violence upon each other, and sometimes upon us. And humans inflict violence upon each other to get access to animals (e.g., poaching) or to defend animals (e.g., militant activism). Constructions of animality may also lead to violence towards marginalized human groups, as intersectional thinkers have claimed. In response to these and other different forms of violence, human and nonhuman animals have engaged in practices of resistance and refusal. Though always conflictual, resistance is not always violent.

Making violence visible (e.g., Cubes of Truth) can lead to conflict and confrontation within the political community. This conflict only deepens as we try to find ways of living respectful of all animals. This necessarily involve compromise and the surrender of human interests. Thus, our relations with other animals, and our attempts to bring about social justice for humans and nonhumans, are often the source of violence, conflict, and strife.

Under the current conditions of human domination, peace seems far away. Indeed, it is hard to know what interspecies peace would look like. Pessimists worry that peaceful coexistence with nonhuman animals is not possible, while optimists look to emergent human-animal communities to show us how we might live differently. Indeed, perhaps we can achieve peace only if we learn from nonhuman animals themselves, and enable them to co-shape future relationships.

For this workshop, we will bring together scholars of animal ethics, animal politics, and cognate disciplines to explore questions of regrettable violence, desired peace, and the conflict we face in moving from one to the other.


Monday 11th September

 

 

11:00-12:30

Registration

12:30-13:3

Lunch

13:30-14:00

Welcome Speech

14:00-16:00

Session 1 Violence and Animal Activism

Chair: Josh Milburn

Chiara Stefanoni: Toward a Materialist Critique of Violence: Challenging “Slaughterhouses with Glass Walls” Discourses in Animal Ethics

Wayne Williams: To the Destruction of What Is: Militant Animal Activism, Agon, and the Liberal Misconception of Democracy

16:00-16:30

Tea and Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Session 1 (continued)

Talia Shoval: Should We Fight for Nature? Posthumanist Politics and the Ethics of Environmental Resistance

17:45-19:00

Wine Reception

19:30

Conference Dinner


Tuesday 12th September

 

 

9:30-11:30

Session 2 Animals in War

Chair: Angie Pepper

Josh Milburn: Ethically Appraising the Military Use of Animals

Stacy Banwell: The War against Nonhuman Animals

11:30-12:00

Tea and Coffee Break

12:00-13:00

Session 2 (continued)

Alasdair Cochrane: Contingent Pacifism and Animal Rights

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Session 3 Activism and Human Duties

Chair: Wayne Williams

Steve Cooke: Can I Get a Witness? The Ethics of Witnessing in Animal Rights Activism

Sara van Goozen: A Responsibility to Protect Biodiversity?

16:00-16:30

Tea and Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Session 3 (continued)

Joel Joseph: What’s the Harm in Preventing Predation?


Wednesday 13th September

 

 

9:30-11:30

Session 4 Animal Agency, Intersectionality and Multispecies Relations

Chair: Angie Pepper

Esther Alloun: Intersectionality and Multispecies Justice in Conflict: The Affective Geographies, Politics, and Practices of Shared Struggles – via Zoom

Sarah DiMaggio: Learning from Animals: “Kinning” as Political Resistance

11:30-12:00

Tea and Coffee Break

12:00-13:00

Discussion

Open discussion about work in progress, plans for the future and possible collaborations.

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-16:00

Session 5 Inter- and Intraspecies Hierarchies: From Violence to Coexistence

Chair: Josh Milburn

Virginia Thomas: The Road to Peace is Paved with Violence: Renewed Coexistence as a Possible Route to Mutual Flourishing of Humans and Reintroduced Species

Gabriel Vidal: Superorganism, Anthropocentrism, and Violence: Rethinking Ecological Perspectives on Ethics

16:00-16:30

Tea and Coffee Break

16:30-17:30

Session 5 (continued)

Yamini Narayanan: ‘A pilgrimage of camels’: Dairy capitalism, nomadic pastoralism, and subnational Hindutva statism in Rajastha – via Zoom

17:30

End of Conference

 

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