Cosmopolitan Animals

In what ways can we conceptualise cosmopolitanisms which are not solely human? What does it take to embrace other animals as fellow creatures; where and how are such relationships made possible?

With a preface by Donna Haraway, Cosmopolitan Animals is the first edited collection to place the question of animals at the centre of cosmopolitical inquiry. Drawing upon recent scholarship on cosmopolitanism and animal studies, the volume asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing, co-existing and 'becoming-with' animals. Edited by a team of six, and featuring chapters by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this collective effort examines knots of human-animal relationships from different angles. It is argued that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.

Kaori Nagai is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Kent.

Karen Jones is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent.

Donna Landry is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Kent.

Monica Mattfeld is an Instructor at the University of British Columbia.

Caroline Rooney is Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Kent.

Charlotte Sleigh is Reader and Director of the Centre for the History of the Sciences at the University of Kent.