Animals Biopolitics Law

<p>Typically the legal investigation of nonhuman life and of animal life in particular is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. <em>Animals Biopolitics Law</em> envisions the possibility of lively legalities that move beyond the humanist perspective. Drawing on an array of expertise—from law geography and anthropology through animal studies and posthumanism to science and technology studies—this interdisciplinary collection asks what in legal terms it means to be human and nonhuman what it means to govern and to be governed and what are the ethical and political concerns that emerge in the project of governing not only human but also more-than-human life. </p>