TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond multispecies ethnography
T2 - Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology
AU - Kopnina, Helen
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - Anthropologists have mediated between discriminated communities and outsiders, helping to influence public opinion through advocacy work. But can anthropological advocacy be applied to the case of violence against nonhumans? Ethical inquiries in anthropology also engage with the manifold ways through which human and nonhuman lives are entangled and emplaced within wider ecological relationships, converging in the so-called multispecies ethnography, but failing to account for exploitation. Reflecting on this omission, this article discusses the applicability of engaged anthropology to the range of issues from the use of nonhumans in medical experimentation and food production industry, to habitat destruction, and in broader contexts involving violence against nonhumans. Concluding that the existing forms of anthropological engagement are inadequate in dealing with the massive scale of nonhuman abuse, this article will suggest directions for a radical anthropology that engages with deep ecology, animal rights, animal welfare, and ecological justice.
AB - Anthropologists have mediated between discriminated communities and outsiders, helping to influence public opinion through advocacy work. But can anthropological advocacy be applied to the case of violence against nonhumans? Ethical inquiries in anthropology also engage with the manifold ways through which human and nonhuman lives are entangled and emplaced within wider ecological relationships, converging in the so-called multispecies ethnography, but failing to account for exploitation. Reflecting on this omission, this article discusses the applicability of engaged anthropology to the range of issues from the use of nonhumans in medical experimentation and food production industry, to habitat destruction, and in broader contexts involving violence against nonhumans. Concluding that the existing forms of anthropological engagement are inadequate in dealing with the massive scale of nonhuman abuse, this article will suggest directions for a radical anthropology that engages with deep ecology, animal rights, animal welfare, and ecological justice.
KW - Animal rights
KW - animal welfare
KW - conservation
KW - deep ecology
KW - ecological justice
KW - multispecies ethnography
KW - radical anthropology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028683320&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0308275X17723973
DO - 10.1177/0308275X17723973
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85028683320
VL - 37
SP - 333
EP - 357
JO - Critique of Anthropology
JF - Critique of Anthropology
SN - 0308-275X
IS - 3
ER -