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Animals, Equality, and Democracy: Themes in Memory of Siobhan O’Sullivan<\/h1>\n

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Angie Pepper (University of Roehampton); Josh Milburn (Loughborough University); Sara Van Goozen (University of York); Matthew Wray Perry (University of British Columbia).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Animal ethicists increasingly recognize political philosophy as offering valuable tools for thinking about interspecies relations, while political philosophers increasingly recognize questions about animals as worthy of exploration. This is, in a large part, thanks to the pioneering work of scholars championing the \u2018political turn\u2019 in animal ethics in the 2000s and 2010s \u2013 including, not least, their work convening sessions on animals and politics at the MANCEPT Workshops, which have been a regular feature of the conference since 2010.*\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, according to Siobhan O\u2019Sullivan, a co-editor of the 2016 collection The Political Turn in Animal Ethics<\/i>, the term \u2018political turn in animal ethics\u2019 has its origins at the MANCEPT Workshops,** which she attended in 2013 and 2014. Sadly, Siobhan died of ovarian cancer in 2023, aged 49. This represented a significant loss to the \u2018animal politics\u2019 community, as well as the broader world of animal studies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Borrowing our title from Siobhan\u2019s pioneering 2011 book, we propose a panel on \u2018Animals, Equality, and Democracy\u2019 open to all scholars in animal politics, from those who knew Siobhan well to those only now entering a field indelibly shaped by her contribution. These themes act as an avenue to reflect on what has been achieved and to consider the future of the \u2018political turn\u2019 in animal ethics. Welcoming scholars of political philosophy, political theory, ethics, political science, (critical) animal studies, and cognate disciplines, we invite abstracts on the following topics, all of recurring interest to Siobhan:\u00a0<\/p>\n