Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders

by Maneesha Deckha

Book Overview

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487525877
• ISBN13: 9781487525873
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher