If not liberation, then what?
The article focuses on the complexities and challenges of multispecies justice, examining human-animal relationships through case studies and critical scholarship. It highlights Flavien Ndonko’s pioneering multispecies ethnography on Germans and their dogs, revealing how dogs are humanized within Ge...
| Published in: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 96 - 102 |
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