von Essen, Erica
- Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
In this paper, we discuss the bridging potential of "interspecies" solidarity between the often incommensurable ethics of care and justice. Indeed, we show that the Environmental Communication literature emphasizes feelings of care and compassion as vectors of responsibility taking for animals. But we also show that a growing field of Political Animal Rights suggest that such responsibility taking should instead be grounded in universalizable terms of justice. Our argument is that a dual conception of solidarity can bridge this divide: On the one hand, solidarity as a pre-political relation with animals and, on the other hand, as a political practice based on open public deliberation of universalizable claims to justice; that is, claims to justice advanced by human proxy representatives of vulnerable non-humans. Such a dual conception can both challenge and validate NGOs' claims to "speak on behalf of animals" in policy following the Aarhus Convention, indeed underwriting the Convention by insights from internatural communication in solidarity as relation, and by subjecting it to rational scrutiny in mini-publics in solidary as practice.
Nyckelord
Solidarity; internatural communication; discourse ethics; proxy representation; mini-publics
Publicerad i
Environmental Communication
2017, volym: 11, nummer: 5, sidor: 641-653
SLU författare
Associerade SLU-program
Människa-djurinteraktioner
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG16 Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen
UKÄ forskningsämne
Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2016.1269820
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/79741