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Animal-state relations: A critical multispecies geopolitics of animality

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This report addresses animal-state relationships in geopolitics. It uses anthropocentrism to interrogate five classic concerns of state-building in geopolitics – identity, security, territory, sovereignty and institutions – by cross-pollinating political geographical scholarship on state structures and processes, with multidisciplinary work on animal politics. It reflects on animals’ diverse relations with Westphalian states, and the stakes of specifying these, toward a critical multispecies geopolitics that articulates animality, devoid of racial-colonial and anthropocentric imperialism, as foundational to anti-anthropocentric geopolitical orders.

Source: Progress in Human Geography

DOI: 10.1177/03091325251348611

Author: Yamini Narayanan

Institution: Deakin University

Language: English

Topic: Geographies of human-animal interactions

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900

Funder: Australian Research Council