Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders

This volume takes ending the oppression of other animals seriously and confronts the question, 'What would happen to all the animals?' by showcasing real, promissory, and imagined counter-sites or heterotopia where animals 'happen' in different ways, free of anthropocentric orders of value and purpose.

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Paula Arcari is an independent scholar living in Melbourne Australia, and a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2019-2022) hosted by the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of Making Sense of 'Food' Animals: A Critical Exploration of the Persistence of 'Meat' published in 2019.

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Introduction

Section 1. Relational reconfigurations in present futures

1. Sites of Vegan Placemaking: A Celebration of Multispecies Alliances at the Borderlands

2. Careful Care Towards Animal Liberation for Feral Pigeons and Beyond

3. Unveiling Shared Histories: Crafting Sanctuary and the Work of Care in Troubled Domestic Domains

4. Non-ridden horses, implanted chickens, and vegan sanctuaries: The liberatory promises and limits of animal heterotopias.

Section 2. Conceptual and political re-ordering

5. The Magpies: Reflections on Liminality, Domestication, and Animal Agency

6. Dog Proposals: Participatory Design, Playfulness, and Multispecies Futures

7. The Radical Praxis of Equity: Mutual Interdependence and an Ethic of Responsibility

Section 3. Subversion through radical storytelling and restorying

8. Opening Aquaria

9. Beyond the Farm - Towards Multispecies Anarcho-Communities

10. The Post-human Ontology of Gothic Enviro-toons: Defying Anthropo-denial in Watership Down, The Plague Dogs and Padak

11. Laugh to Liberate: Futurabilities of Posthumanist Comedy

Section 4. Personal shifts and transformations

12. Love Beyond the Species Divide in Nizami Ganjavi's Layla and Majnun

13. Choosing Snakes: Towards unhampered hospitality

14. A New Pedagogy of Sharing Multispecies Sentience: Coexisting in Spaces of Love and Compassion

Afterword: A methodological side-note