Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders: Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals

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Paula Arcari (Paula Arcari works at Edge Hill University)

Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders

Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals

Paula Arcari (Paula Arcari works at Edge Hill University)

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Routledge
13 December 2024

Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Human geography; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series

This volume takes ending the oppression of other animals seriously and confronts the question ‘What would happen to all the animals?’ by showcasing real, promissory, and imagined counter-sites or heterotopia, where animals ‘happen’ in different ways, free of anthropocentric orders of value and purpose.

Rejecting persistent understandings of the oppression of nonhuman animals, across the entire breadth of the Animal-Industrial Complex (A-IC), as either non-existent, unproblematic, and/or fundamentally unalterable – open to merely being reduced in scale or made less harmful – the collection offers readers a variety of pathways towards radically ‘disordered’ ways of thinking about and relating to other animals. Over 14 chapters, authors describe more liberatory relational reconfigurations playing out in the present and undertake conceptual, imaginative, and embodied explorations of liberatory futures. The chapters are united by a common commitment to heterotopic disturbance – to contesting and subverting the anthropo-capitalo-centric space in which we live. Each chapter approaches this subversion in its own way, using prefiguration, restorying, speculation, radical imagination, and combinations thereof, to disturb or shatter orders, explore the kinds of liberation and resistance their disturbance demonstrates, demands, or embodies, and ultimately illustrate exactly what would or could

happen to all the animals.

Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders will appeal to scholars, students, and individuals interested not only in challenging normalised binaries, hierarchies, and orders of value, both human and nonhuman, but in creating and realising liberatory alternatives. Scholar-activists, activists, professionals working in animal advocacy, and anyone undertaking activities aimed at radically changing how other animals are understood and used will also find inspiration, new insights, and information that enhance their current methods and approaches. Some readers may also find simply confirmation and comfort in the knowledge that so many others are working in solidarity with the ‘disordered’ belief that shattering the A-IC is possible.

Edited by: Paula Arcari (Paula Arcari works at Edge Hill University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032433004
ISBN 10: 1032433000
Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 13 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Paula Arcari is an independent scholar living in Melbourne Australia, and a former Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2019-2022) hosted by the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University, UK. She is the author of Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals: A Critical Exploration of the Persistence of ‘Meat’ published in 2019.

Reviews for Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders: Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals

'To create a future where humans and other animals are free, we need inspiring visions to guide us. After all, we can only create what we can imagine. Over 14 chapters, this collection offers much needed examples and visions of more liberatory ways of seeing and relating to our animal cousins, providing glimpses of what this promises, and helping us uncover pathways to create these alternative futures.' Dr Laila Kassam, Animal Think Tank, UK 'Taking us across sanctuaries, neighbourhood trees, dovecotes, and design projects, Arcari’s curation of ‘heterotopia’ shows why and how noticings and imaginings of possibilities otherwise are imperative for liberatory politics to be conceivable and hence actionable. Each chapter exuding care, this groundbreaking collection heralds a momentous generational shift in animal studies, composing a conceptual insurrection, a new political grammar, and critically, a tangible cartography for radicalising human-to-animal alliances.' Associate Professor Yamini Narayana, Deakin University, Australia