Animal Law: Feminist and Anti-Colonial Perspectives

This book brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production.

This book 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.

This book explores some of the ways that the oppression of Indigenous persons and more-than-human animals are interconnected. The book is divided into four themes: "Tensions and Alliances between Animal and Decolonial Activisms", "Revisiting the Stereotypes of Indigenous Peoples' Relationships with Animals", "Cultural Perspectives", and "Colonialism, Animals, and the Law".

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's leading producers of beef, leather, and milk, industries sustained by the mass slaughter of bovines. What is behind this seeming contradiction? What do bovines, deemed holy in Hinduism, experience in the Indian milk and beef industries?