Category: Vegan Feminists

Écoféminisme et antispécisme Solidarité des luttes

Justice pour les animaux. Théories et pratiques écoféministes pour une solidarité des luttes

Entre l’élection de la CAQ, le dernier rapport du GIEC qui anticipe un réchauffement de 3 degrés d’ici la fin du siècle et l’ONU qui prévoit que la production alimentaire doit doubler d’ici 2050 pour “répondre à la demande” grandissante en viande, en produits laitiers et en poissons, on a des raisons d’être pessimiste pour le sort des animaux au Québec et ailleurs dans le monde.

Déjà, 70% des oiseaux sur la planète naissent dans nos élevages. Seuls 4% des mammifères sont des animaux sauvages. L’hécatombe des animaux sauvages (58% des populations de vertébrés décimées depuis 1970) est principalement causée par leur exploitation directe (chasse et pêche) et par l’explosion démographique des animaux d’élevage qui détruisent et polluent leurs habitats.

Nous sommes nombreuses à refuser cette situation et à tenter de mettre en branle un avenir différent. La cause animale est un des mouvements sociaux qui se développe le plus rapidement actuellement. De plus en plus de gens refusent de manger des animaux, s’opposent activement à leur statut de marchandises et de ressources naturelles, revendiquent la fermeture des abattoirs et des pêcheries et n’hésitent pas à mettre leur liberté en jeu pour venir en aide aux animaux et forcer un débat social informé en filmant illégalement leurs conditions de vie et de mort.

D’autres hésitent à franchir le pas: Ne doit-on pas plutôt s’opposer aux méthodes industrielles et revenir à des petits élevages de proximité, quitte à payer plus cher pour des animaux mieux traités? Renforcer les lois de protection animale n’est-il pas suffisant? Reconnaître des droits fondamentaux aux animaux ne dévalorise-t-il pas les droits humains? Contester que l’espèce soit une catégorie moralement pertinente comme le font les animalistes, n’est-ce pas ouvrir la porte à la déshumanisation et l’animalisation des humains?

À l’aide des analyses écoféministes, nous verrons que loin d’être ce mouvement élitiste, impérialiste et antihumaniste qu’on l’accuse d’être, le véganisme est une pratique de résistance accessible et plus progressiste que l’omnivorisme consciencieux (qui n’offre aucune solution aux déserts alimentaires, constitue un obstacle à la sécurité alimentaire mondiale, favorise le développement ethnocentriste de la cause animale et renforce cette “logique de la domination” qui opprime à la fois les animaux et plusieurs êtres humains).

Mettre en pratique le véganisme comme non-coopération permet de cesser de dépendre d’un système qu’on condamne et encourage le développement d’alternatives concrètes ici et maintenant, mais ne doit pas aller encore plus loin et désobéir aux lois pour porter assistance aux animaux et combattre les industries qui les exploitent?

Que penser de l’adoption d’une politique intersectionnelle dans le mouvement de défense des animaux? N’est-ce pas un frein au développement de la cause animale? La solidarité entre les luttes ne revient-elle pas à faire passer les animaux en dernier?

Info : https://www.facebook.com/events/247999509198468/

Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies, Cripping Critical Animal Studies – Conference Program

Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies, Cripping Critical Animal Studies

Conference Program

June 21-23, 2016
University of Alberta

Organized by Chloë Taylor and Kelly S. Montford

For more info on rooms and for updates on the program, check out this site.

Tuesday, June 21

2:00-3:00 p.m. – Refreshments and Registration in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl

3:00-5:00 p.m. – Welcome and Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies Plenary Panel

Decolonizing Critical Animal Studies Plenary Panel with DINESH WADIWEL, KIM TALLBEAR, AND MANEESHA DECKHA; MODERATED BY BILLY-RAY BELCOURT

5:30 p.m. – Dinner at Narayanni’s Restaurant (vegan South Indian buffet), 10131 81 Avenue

Wednesday, June 22

8:00-9:00 a.m. – continental breakfast in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
9:00-10:00 a.m.: Concurrent Individual Papers

A. ‘Animal Crips’ and Cripping Animal Liberation

Ryan Sweet, “Chickens with Cork Legs and Dogs with Dentures: Representations of Prostheticised Animals in Late Nineteenth-Century Periodicals”

Hannah Monroe, “Neurodiversity and Animal Liberation: Challenging Hegemonic Constructions of Normalcy”

B. Indigenous Epistemologies

Danielle Taschereau Mamers, “Decolonizing the plains: bison life beyond colonial commodification”
Brandon Kerfoot, “Seals that club back: Animal Revenge in Alootook Ipellie’s Arctic Dreams and Nightmares”

C. Critical Engagements with the Work of Temple Grandin

Chair: Lindsay Eales

Vasile Stanescu, “Lost in Translation: Temple Grandin, ‘Humane Meat’ and the Intersection of Oppression”

Vittoria Lion, “Disrupting Temple Grandin: Resisting a ‘Humane’ Face for Autistic and Animal Oppression”

D. Settler Colonialism and Animals

Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, ‘Dog whistling: Australian settler colonialism and the dingo’

Presenters: Fiona Probyn-Rapsey and Dinesh Wadiwel (Co-authors: (presenters plus Sue Donaldson, George Ioannides, Tess Lea, Kate Marsh, Astrida Neimanis, Annie Potts, Nik Taylor, Richard Twine, Stuart White), ‘Sydney’s sustainability and campus food justice workshop”

10:15-12:00 – Cripping Critical Animal Studies Plenary Panel

Plenary panel with Stephanie Jenkins, Sunaura Taylor, and A. Marie Houser
moderated by Vittoria Lion

12:00-1:00 – lunch in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl

1:00-2:30 p.m.: Concurrent Individual Papers

A. Gender, Disability, and Animality (Undergraduate Student Panel)

Samuella Jo Johnson, “Institutionalized Space: Dehumanization and the Masking of Violence”

James Harley, “The Trouble with Animal Rights Activism: Emotion Work is Women’s Work”

Dylan Hallingstad O’Brien, “‘We Are Humans!’: Animality as Disability in Yusuke Kishi’s Shinsekai Yori”

B. Settler Colonial Imaginings of Nature and Animals

Ben O’Heran, “Henry David Thoreau, the Unsettled Settler: Exploring Environmentalism as a Means of Usurping Indigenous Place-Thought”

Carina Magazzeni, “The Trouble with Taxidermy: Brad Isaacs and Animalium”

Rebekah Sinclair,”Guest, Pests, or Terrorists?: The Settler-Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive Species”

C. Decolonial Perspectives on Domestication and Diet

Shaila Wadhwani, “Coloniality: Nature and the Bodies of Domestication”

Jason Price, “Decolonizing Desire and Relationships with Animals and Space in The Devil’s Chimney”

Samantha King, “Consuming Animals in Theory and Practice: Conversations with Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies Scholars on the Ethics and Politics of Food”

3:00-4:00 – Seeing Animals: Crip Reflections on the Work of Sunaura Taylor

Plenary Lecture by Alison Kafer
moderated by Emilia Nielsen

4:15-5:30 p.m. Art Exhibition Opening: Works of Sunaura Taylor
FemLab (Feminist Exhibition Space), Assiniboia Hall
curated by Michelle Meagher
Wine and Cashew Cheese Reception

Thursday, June 23

8:00-9:00 a.m. – continental breakfast in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl
9:00-10:30 a.m.: Concurrent Individual Papers

A. Global Perspectives on Interlocking Oppressions

Lisa Warden, “The street dog and the slum dweller: twin victims of urban renewal in modern India”

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, “But American Indians Blessed the Animals Before Killing Them: Native Fetishes and Edible Others in Brazil”

Maria Elena Garcia, “Culinary Spectacles: Bodies and Violence in Peru’s Gastronomic Boom”

B. Critical Animal/ Disability Studies

Nancy Halifax and Chelsea Jones, “‘What kind of animal are you?’”

Chelsea Jones and Liz Shek-Noble, “What to Make of Lashawn Chan: An Overview of Critical Disability, Animal, and Post-colonial Studies’ Intersections in Southeast Asia and North America”

C. Philosophical Perspectives on Interlocking Oppressions

Angela Martin, “Affirmative Action for Animals?”

Syl Kocieda, “The spectre of not-quite-humans in the narrative of ‘animality’: Should we be talking about actual animals in animal advocacy?”

Frédéric Côté-Boudreau, “Enabling Autonomy for Animals and People with Cognitive Disabilities”

10:30-11:00 a.m. – refreshment break in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Indigenous Food Politics

Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Reserve Dying and the Taste of Non-Sovereignty”
Margaret Robinson, “All My (Blood) Relations: Indigenous Relationality in Vegan Future”
moderated by Susanne Luhmann

12:00-1:00 p.m. – lunch in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl

1:00 – 2:15 – BOOK PANELS

A. Book panel on Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel’s The War Against Animals (Brill Press, 2015)

Chair: Chloë Taylor

Panelists: Vasile Stanescu and Kelin Emmett

Respondent: Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

B. Book panel on Claire Jean Kim’s Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Panelists: Kelly Struthers Montford and Christiane Bailey

Respondent: Claire Jean Kim

C. Book panel on Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (New Press, 2016)

Chair: Danielle Peers

Panelists: Alexis Shotwell and Joshua St. Pierre

Respondent: Sunaura Taylor

2:30-3:30 – Taxonomies of Power

Plenary lecture by Claire Jean Kim
moderated by Fiona probyn-rapsey

3:30-4:00 p.m. – refreshment break in the Humanities Centre Fishbowl

5:00-8:00 p.m. visit to F.A.R.R.M. (farm sanctuary) and vegan bbq

For more info on rooms and for updates on the program, check out this site.

Suprématie humaine et libération animale : approches écoféministes et anarchistes dans les luttes antispécistes radicales

Bec wonders Animal Liberation

 

« Suprématie humaine et libération animale : approches écoféministes et anarchistes dans les luttes antispécistes radicales »

Conférence donnée par Christiane Bailey
(étudiante au doctorat en philosophie, Université de Montréal)

Comité Libération animale, Collectif Perspective Révolutionnaire,
Cegep du Vieux Montréal, salle 4.75 (4e étage, caféteria des profs) dès 18h30.

Vendredi 4 mars – 18h30

Gratuit et ouvert au grand public (capacité de la salle: 100 personnes)

Voir la présentation power point en ligne

Présentation en PDF (Partie 1)

Présentation en PDF (Partie 2)

Infos : https://www.facebook.com/events/1038154289579413/

« Nous ne sommes pas des animaux ! ». Voilà sans doute la stratégie la plus utilisée par les groupes humains marginalisés et opprimés pour combattre leur oppression.

Adoptant une approche écoféministe qui soutient que plusieurs oppressions humaines sont liées à la domination (considérée « naturellement juste ») des humains sur les autres animaux, je soutiendrai que l’humanisme-suprématiste est non seulement profondément injuste envers les autres animaux, mais nuit également à la protection des humains les plus marginalisés et vulnérables.

Pour développer des mouvements anti-oppressifs réellement solidaires, il ne suffit pas de critiquer le spécisme des progressistes et des écolos et de montrer comment l’idéologie de la suprématie humaine est liée au patriarcat, à l’esclavagisme, au colonialisme et au capacitisme, il faut également dénoncer les campagnes souvent racistes, sexistes, classistes et capacitistes dans le mouvement de défense des animaux.

Les approches intersectionnelles et critiques dans le mouvement de libération animale visent à développer des pratiques de résistance, des stratégies politiques et des campagnes d’éducation qui soient solidaires des autres luttes pour la justice sociale.

Je donnerai en ce sens un aperçu des travaux menés dans les études animales critiques (critical animal studies). Ce domaine de recherches interdisciplinaires vise 1) à développer un discours critique sur nos représentations (philosophiques, culturelles, scientifiques, etc.) des autres animaux, 2) à combattre leur oppression, leur exploitation et leur mise à mort et 3) à s’opposer à la répression politique grandissante des activistes pour les animaux.

Ces coûteuses tentatives de criminaliser les activistes qui menacent les profits des industries exploitant les animaux et détruisant leurs habitats (comme l’industrie agro-alimentaire, pharmaceutique, minière, forestière et pétrolière ainsi que l’industrie des armes à feu) ne devraient pas nous décourager, mais au contraire nous faire réaliser que le mouvement pour les droits animaux représente une menace concrète pour ces industries qui capitalisent sur l’ignorance de la population et qui minent délibérément les processus de décisions démocratiques.

Cegep du Vieux Montréal, salle 4.75 (4e étage, caféteria des profs) dès 18h30.

Cegep VM

CFP: Philosophical Ecologies: Considerations of the Animal, the Vegetal and the Environmental

Philosophical Ecologies: Considerations of the Animal, the Vegetal and the Environmental

23rd Annual DePaul University Graduate Student Conference

February 12-13, 2016

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Call for submissions – Deadline: December 1, 2015

Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Willett, Emory University

Recent research in interspecies ethics, the place of plant life, and conceptions of the environmental testifies to escalating concerns regarding the insufficiency of existing interrogations into the historical privileging of some forms of life over others. These concerns emerge from a long history of global injustices that have resulted in environmental degradation as well as marginalization of both human and nonhuman populations through such practices as speciation, colonization, feminization, criminalization and dehumanization. This conference highlights the particularly urgent need for more rigorously articulated philosophies of the animal, the vegetal, and the environmental and seeks to reconsider conceptual boundaries between natural and artificial spaces and concepts of life. Topics of interest may include, but are certainly not limited to:

  • environmental, animal, or food ethics
  • conceptions of animal, plant, and human life
  • eco-feminism
  • theoretical, political, and/or historical distinctions between the human and the nonhuman
  • environmental politics and policy
  • rights discourse and its application to nonhuman others
  • nature and the polis
  • colonization and environmental exploitation
  • eco-affectivity and interspecies attunements
  • intergenerational environmentalism
  • ethology and communication in animal and plant life
  • environmental aesthetics
  • dehumanization and oppression

Submissions from any area of study addressing these topics are welcome. Papers should be limited to 3,000 words and prepared for blind review. Please include name, university affiliation, and submission title in the body of your email, and send all submissions and inquires to: depaul.philosophy@gmail.com

Conference – Animal Rights, Human Rights, and the Future of the Planet

Animal Rights, Human Rights, and the Future of the Planet

Room Leacock 219 –Université McGill
855 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest,Montréal,QC H3A 0C4

Organisée par le Centre de Recherche en Éthique CRE) – axe Éthique et environnement

Conférences (en anglais) de :
Carter Dillard, director of litigation with the Animal Legal Defense Fund
Stephanie Feldstein, population and sustainability director with the Center for Biological Diversity


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le cre logoThere are more than 7 billion people in the world today and approximately 56 billion land animals raised and slaughtered for food each year. Both of those numbers are quickly rising. Population growth and meat consumption are some of the leading causes of the current mass extinction crisis, putting humans on the path to replacing other species with ourselves and the domesticated animals we eat, decimating what remains of our once biodiverse planet. And yet, environmentalists rarely mention either. Livestock are often bred in cruel factory farms, occupy more than 25 percent of the earth, use one-third of arable land for their feed, and are responsible for massive amounts of water use and greenhouse gas emissions, making meat production and consumption one of the most inhumane and devastating industries on the planet – not only for farm animals, but for the wildlife and environment they impact. As world population and globalization continue to grow, so will the demand for animal products.

Meanwhile, due in large part to our explosive growth and voracious appetites, wildlife species are going extinct at the fastest rate since the time of the dinosaurs and climate change is threatening life on this earth as we know it. Yet the topics of population growth and overconsumption – particularly of animal products – is usually left out of conversations in law schools and the legal academy and among environmental groups, activists, and the media. All of this raises crucial questions that are rarely asked: Why are we, and the animals we eat, replacing other species on earth? Is the animal rights movement really progressing given the ongoing mass extinction of other species? Has the environmental movement failed given the prospects for extinction, anthropogenic climate change, and other environmental crises? How do human rights play into these issues, if at all? Can we rethink our most basic moral and legal norms to prevent the degradation of our world? Why aren’t more people talking about population growth and animal agriculture, and can we really do anything about it?

The speakers will discuss the vital connections between animal agriculture, human population growth, environmental protection, and systems of rights – both human and animal. They will explain how to use this synergy – along with advocacy, creativity, and legal action – to get beyond the stigma and taboo that usually keep population growth and our diets out of conversations and they will suggest legal reforms and practical ways for each of us to create a better future for all species.

Presenters:

Le cre CarterCarter Dillard is Director of Litigation with the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Carter began his career as an Honors Program appointee to the U.S. Department of Justice and later served as a legal advisor to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the National Security Law Division. He holds a B.A. from Boston College, a J.D., Order of the Coif and with honors, from Emory University, and an LL.M. from New York University. Carter has written over a dozen articles, including peer-reviewed pieces, on animal protection and human population ethics, founded the organization uncrowded.org which promotes smaller and more loving families, and he currently sits on the Steering Committee for the Population Ethics: Theory and Practice research project at the University of Oxford. You can learn more about ALDF’s work to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system at www.aldf.org.

le cre stephaneStephanie Feldstein is Population and Sustainability Director with the Center for Biological Diversity. Stephanie leads the Center’s work to highlight and address threats to endangered species and wild places from runaway human population growth and overconsumption. Previously Stephanie worked for Change.org, where she helped hundreds of people start and win online campaigns to save wildlife and other animals. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and has years of experience in organizing, outreach and communications, with a focus on animal and environmental protection. You can learn more about the Center’s population and sustainability program at www.biologicaldiversity.org/population_sustainability; www.endangeredspeciescondoms.com; and www.takeextinctionoffyourplate.com

Poster (.pdf)
Info : www.lecre.umontreal.ca/ai1ec_event/animal-rights-human-rights-and-the-future-of-the-planet