Animals in International Relations: a research agenda
| Published date | 01 September 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231191294 |
| Author | Joana Castro Pereira,Judith Renner |
| Date | 01 September 2023 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
https://doi.org/10.1177/00471178231191294
International Relations
2023, Vol. 37(3) 389 –397
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Animals in International
Relations: a research
agenda
Joana Castro Pereira
University of Porto
Judith Renner
Technical University of Munich
Abstract
Animals are integral to world politics, yet largely neglected in International Relations (IR). This
Special Issue (SI) aims to address this gap and offers a collection of original research articles
that investigate issues pertaining to sovereignty, power, diplomacy, the ethics of war, justice
and emancipation, environmental governance, activism and international law. The articles make
animals visible within those realms, raise novel questions and develop approaches through
which the specific role(s) of animals and human-animal relations in international politics may be
theoretically understood and empirically explored. They open a conversation between IR and
Critical Animal Studies (CAS). The SI contributes to a broader understanding of the complex
and interconnected nature of human-animal relations, and therefore to the reorientation of
IR towards a post-anthropocentric perspective of world politics that renders the field better
equipped to understand and address our current Anthropocene predicament. To introduce the
SI, this article starts by addressing the invisibility of animals in IR and why this is problematic. It
then provides an overview of the articles included in the SI and concludes by outlining a research
agenda for the study of animals in IR.
Keywords
animals, Anthropocene, Critical Animal Studies, IR, research agenda
Corresponding author:
Joana Castro Pereira, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Via Panorâmica, s/n, Porto 4150-564,
Portugal.
Email: jcpereira@letras.up.pt
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