AEfM Bibliography

This bibliography highlights the work of early career researchers* who are members of historically marginalized groups. Here, we highlight the work of early career researchers, as they tend to be especially underrepresented in the animal ethics/studies literature. Click here for a list of writings on animals by more established scholars from the margins.

*On this page,'early career scholars' refers to Associate Professors and below (or the non-academic equivalent).

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Abortion and Animal Rights

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Adventures in Moral Consistency: How to Develop an Abortion Ethic Through an Animal Rights Framework.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 18, no. 1 (2015): 145–164.

Animals in African Philosophy

• Etieyibo, Edwin. “Anthropocentricism, African Metaphysical Worldview, and Animal Practices.” Journal of Animal Ethics 7 (2017): 145–62.
• Molefe, Motsamai. “The Place of Animals in African Moral Philosophy.” In African Personhood and Applied Ethics by Motsamai Molefe. Grahamstown: NISC, 2019.

Animals in Entertainment

• Andrade, Gabriel. “Francis Wolff’s Flawed Philosophical Defense of Bullfighting.” Between the Species 22, no. 1 (2018): 158–184.
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis. “Minority Cultural Rights and Bullfighting in a Portuguese Context.” Society and Animals (Forthcoming).
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “The Argument from Existence, Blood-Sports, and ‘Sport-Slaves.’’ Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27, no. 2 (2014): 331-345.
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “Game Birds: The Ethics of Shooting Birds for Sport.” Sport, Ethics and Philosophy: Journal of the British Philosophy of Sport Association 4, no. 1 (2010): 52-65.
• Kranke, Nina. “How the Suffering of Nonhuman Animals and Humans in Animal Research is Interconnected.” Journal of Animal Ethics 10, no. 1 (2020): 41-48.
• Emmerman, Karen.  “Moral Arguments Against Zoos.” In Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Bob Fischer, 381–93. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Rocha, James. “Chasing Secretariat’s Consent: The Impossibility of Permissible Animal Sports.” Between the Species  21, no. 1 (2018): 128–150.

Animal Labour

• Blattner, Charlotte. “Should Animals Have a Right to Work? Promises and Pitfalls.” Animal Studies Journal 9, no. 1 (2020): 32-92.
• Taylor, Nik and Hamilton, Lindsay. 2013. Animals at Work: Identity, Politics and Culture in Work with Animals. Brill.
• Zuolo, Federico. “Cooperation with Animals. What is and what is not.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (2020): 315–335.

Animals and the Law

• Blattner, Charlotte. “3R for Farmed Animals – A Legal Argument for Consistency.” Global Journal of Animal Law, 1 (2016): 1–24.
• Blattner, Charlotte. “Beyond the Goods/Resources Dichotomy: Animal Labor and Trade Law.” Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 22 (2019): 63–89.
• Blattner, Charlotte.  Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction and the Challenges of Globalization. New York:Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Blattner, Charlotte. “The Recognition of Animal Sentience by the Law.” Journal of Animal Ethics 9, no. 2 (2019): 121–36.
• McCausland, Clare (with Siobhan O’Sullivan and Scott Brenton). “Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice.” Res Publica 23, no. 3 (2017):261–280 .
• McCausland, Clare (with Siobhan O’Sullivan and Scott Brenton). “Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement.” Res Publica 19, no. 3 (2013):205–221.
• Offor, Iyan. “Second Wave Animal Ethics and (Global) Animal Law: A View from the Margins.” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 11, no. 2 (2020).
• Stucki, Saskia. “Towards a Theory of Legal Animal Rights: Simple and Fundamental Rights.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, gqaa007, doi/10.1093/ojls/gqaa007 (2020).

Animal Minds

• Akhtar, Sahar. Animal Pain and Welfare: Can Pain Sometimes Be Worse for Them than for Us? In The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and R. G. Frey (2011).
• Danón, Laura. “Neo-Pragmatism, Primitive Intentionality and Animal Minds.” Philosophia 47, no. 5 (2019):39–58.
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “Animal Thoughts on Factory Farms: Michael Leahy, Language and Awareness of Death.” Between the Species 13, no. 8 (2008).
• Gillespie, Kathryn.  Intimacy, Animal Emotion, and Empathy: Multispecies Intimacy as Slow Research Practice. In Writing Intimacy into Geography, eds P Moss and C Donovan. Ashgate Publishing (2017).
• Monsó , Susana. “How to Tell if Animals can Understand Death.” Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy 1 (2019). doi:10.1007/s10670-019-00187-2.
• Rocha, James (with David Judd). “Autonomous Pigs.” Ethics and the Environment 22, no. 1 (2017): 1–18.
• Rocha, James. “Kantian Respect for Minimally Rational Animals.” Social Theory and Practice 41, no. 2 (2015):309–327.
• Seacord, Beth. “Animals, Phenomenal Consciousness, and Higher-Order Theories of Mind.” Philo: A Journal of Philosophy 14, no. 2 (2011): 201–222.
• Webb, Christine E (with Peter Woodford and Elise Huchard). “Animal Ethics and Behavioral Science: An Overdue Discussion.” BioScience 69, no. 10 (2019): 778–788.

Animal Morality

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Nonhuman Animals: Not Necessarily Saints or Sinners.” Between the Species 17, no. 1 (2014): 1–30.
• Monsó , Susana (with  J. Benz-Schwarzburg & A. Bremhorst). “Animal Morality: What it means and why it matters.” The Journal of Ethics  22 (2018): 283–310.
• Monsó , Susana. “Animal Moral Psychologies” (with K. Andrews). In The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, edited by John M. Doris and  Manuel Vargas. New York: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming).
• Monsó , Susana. “Empathy and Morality in Behaviour Readers.” Biology & Philosophy 30 (2015): 671–690.
• Monsó , Susana. “Morality without Mindreading.” Mind & Language 32, no. 3 (2017): 338–57.
• Rutledge-Prior, Serrin. “Moral Responsiveness and Nonhuman Animals: A Challenge to Kantian Morality.” Ethics and the Environment 24, no. 1 (2019): 45–76.

Animal Resistance

Colling, Sarat. 2020. Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era: The Animal Turn. Michigan State University Press.

Animal Rights Activism

• Andreatta, María Marta. “Performing Veganism:  Building Bridges between Academia, Activism and Community.” In Critical Animal Studies in Activism:  Global Perspectives on Intersectionality and Total Liberation, edited by AJ Nocella II, K Socha, and RJ White. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, (forthcoming). 
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis. “Is the Animal Liberation Front Morally Justified in Engaging in Violent and Illegal Activism towards Animal Farms?” Critical Studies on Terrorism 9 (2016): 226–246.
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis. “Understanding the Impact of the AETA on Animal Advocacy.” Environmental Ethics 39, no. 4 (2017): 355–75.
• Wrenn, Corey. “The Abolitionist Approach: Critical Comparisons and Challenges within the Animal Rights Movements.” Interface 4, no. 2 (2012): 438–458.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Abolition Then and Now: Tactical Comparisons Between the Human Rights Movement and the Modern Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement in the U.S.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 27, no. 2 (2014): 177–200.
• Wrenn, Corey. “A Critique of Single-issue Campaigning and the Importance of Comprehensive Abolitionist Vegan Advocacy.” Food, Culture & Society 16, no. 4 (2013): 651–668.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Fat vegan politics: A survey of fat vegan activists’ online experiences with social movement sizeism.” Fat Studies 6, no. 1 (2017): 90–102.
• Wrenn, Corey. Piecemeal protest: Animal rights in the age of nonprofits. University of Michigan Press, 2019.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Resonance of Moral Shocks in Abolitionist Animal Rights Advocacy: Overcoming Contextual Constraints.” Society & Animals 21, no. 4 (2013): 379–394.
• Wrenn, Corey. “The Role of Professionalization Regarding Female Exploitation in the Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement.” Journal of Gender Studies 24, (2015): 131–146.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? Factionalism in Animal Rights.” Critical Mass Bulletin 42, no. 2, 2017.

Animal Rights Theory

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl)  “Animal Rights and the Duty to Harm: When to be a Harm Causing Deontologist.” Zeitschrift Für Ethik Und Moralphilosophie: Journal for Ethics and Moral Philosophy 1 (2020): 1–22.
• Doomen, Jasper. “Of Mosquitoes and Men: The Basis of Animal and Human Rights.” Croatian Journal of Philosophy 15, no. 43 (2015): 37–50.
• Foreman, Elizabeth.  “Doing Without Moral Rights.” In Animal Rights and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy, edited by Elisa Aaltola and John Hadley, 133–147. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.
• McCausland, Clare. “The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare are Rights.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27, no. 4 (2014):649–662.
• Wrenn, Corey. A Rational Approach to Animal Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Animal Welfare

Browning, Heather. “The Natural Behavior Debate: Two Conceptions of Animal Welfare.” Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 23, no. 3 (2020):325-337.

Companion Animal Ethics

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “A Defense of Free Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-being.” Acta Analytica (2019): 1–23. doi:10.1007/s12136-019-00408-x.
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Harming Some to Benefit Others: Animal Rights and the Moral Imperative of Trap-Neuter-Release Programs.” Between the Species 21, no. 1 (2018): 94–126.
• du Toit, Jessica. “Is Having Pets Morally Permissible?” Journal of Applied Philosophy 33, no. 3 (2016): 327-343.
• du Toit, Jessica. “Reproducing Companion Animals” (with David Benatar). In Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, edited by Christine Overall, Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Guenther, Katja. The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals. Stanford University Press, 2020.
• Guenther, Katja. “‘Taking the Ghetto Out of the Dog’: Reproducing Social Inequalities in Pit Bull Rescue.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43, no. 10 (2019): 1795-1812.
• Haramia, Chelsea. “Why We Should Stop Creating Pets with Lives Worth Living.” Between the Species 18, no. 1 (2015): 75-91.
• Jeppson, Sofia. “Flourishing Dogs: The Case for an Individualized Conception of Welfare and Its Implications.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 29, no. 3 (2016): 425–438.
• Jeppsson, Sofia. “Purebred Dogs and Canine Wellbeing.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 27, no. 3 (2014): 417–430.
• Kendrick, Heather. “Autonomy, Slavery, and Companion Animals.” Between the Species 22, no. 1 (2018): 236-259.
• Marek Muller, Stephanie (2020): Companion Cyborgs: Untethering Discourses About Wolf-Hybrids, Environmental Communication (2020).
• Meijer, Eva. “The Good Life, the Good Death: Companion Animals and Euthanasia.” Animal Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (2018): 205-225. 
• Sandoval-Cervantes, Ivan. “For the Love of Dogs: Approaching Animal-Human Interactions in Mexico.” AntrhoNews (2014).
• Sandoval-Cervantes, Ivan. “Semi-Stray Dogs and Graduated Humanness: The Political Encounters of Dogs and Humans in Mexico.” In Companion Animals in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures, edited by Michal Piotr Pregowski, 169–181. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Sutton, Zoei.”Researching Towards a Critically Posthumanist Future: On the Political “Doing” of Critical Research for Companion Animal Liberation.”International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (2020).
• Selter, Felicitas (with Persson, K., Neitzke, G., and Kunzmann, P.).”Philosophy of a “Good Death” in Small Animals and Consequences for Euthanasia in Animal Law and Veterinary Practice.” Animals 10, no. 1 (2020).
• Taylor, Nik and Fraser, Heather. Companion Animals and Domestic Violence: Rescuing Me, Rescuing You. 2019. Palgrave.

Dignity and Animals

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Valuing Animals as they Are: Whether They Feel it or Not.” European Journal of Philosophy (2020). doi 10.1111/ejop.12521.
• Humphreys, Rebekah. Dignity and Its Violation Examined within the Context of Animal Ethics. Ethics and the Environment 21(2): 143-162 (2016).
• Martin, Angela. “On Respecting Animals, or Can Animals be Wronged Without Being Harmed?” Res Publica: A Journal of Moral, Legal and Political Philosophy 25, no. 1 (2019): 83–99. 
• Zuolo, Federico. “Dignity and Animals. Does it Make Sense to Apply the Concept of Dignity to All Sentient Beings?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19, no. 5 (2016): 1117–1130.

Disability and Animals

• Johnson, Jenell. “Disability, Animals, and the Rhetorical Boundaries of Personhood.” JAC 32, no. 1/2 (2012): 372–82. 
• Taylor, Sunaura. Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation. New York: The New Press, 2017.

Eating Animals

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “The Epistemology of Meat Eating.” Social Epistemology (2020). doi: 10.1080/02691728.2020.1771794.
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Meat Eating and Moral Responsibility: Exploring the Moral Distinctions between Meat Eaters and Puppy Torturers.” Utilitas (2020). doi: 10.1017/S0953820820000072.
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Save the Meat for Cats: Why It’s Wrong to Eat Roadkill.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 32, no. 1 (2019): 165–182. 
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Veganism, (Almost) Harm-Free Animal Flesh, and Nonmaleficence: Navigating dietary ethics in an unjust world.” In Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Bob Fischer, 555–568. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Andreatta, María Marta. “Being a Vegan. A Performative Autoethnography.”  Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies, 15, no. 6 (2015).  
• Deckha, Maneesha. “Veganism, Dairy, and Decolonization.” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 11, no. 2 (2020).
• Foreman, Elizabeth. “Good Eats.” Between the Species 17, no. 1 (2014).
• Gillespie, Kathryn. The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2018).
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “How Happy is Your Meat? Confronting (dis)connectedness in the ‘Alternative’ Meat Industry.” The Brock Review 12, no. 1 (2011): 100-128.
• Glasser, Carol. “Open Data: USDA Food Recalls, 2006-2010.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9, no. 3 (2011): 97–103.
• Ko, Aph (with Syl Ko). Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters. New York: Lantern Books, 2017.
• Ko, Syl (with Aph Ko). Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters. New York: Lantern Books, 2017.
• Marek Muller, Stephanie. “Zombification, Social Death, and the Slaughterhouse: US Industrial  Practices of Livestock Slaughter.” American Studies 57, no. 3 (2018): 81-101.
• Panizza, Silvia. “If Veganism Is Not a Choice: The Moral Psychology of Possibilities in Animal Ethics.” Animals (Basel) 10, no. 1 (2020).
• Robinson-Greene, Rachel. Under a Suitable Medium: Critically Analyzing the In Vitro Meat Revolution.  (Forthcoming).
• Wrenn, Corey. “Human Supremacy, Post-Speciesist Ideology, and the Case for Anti-Colonialist Veganism.” In Animals in Human Society, edited by Daniel Moorehead, 55–70. Lanham MD: University Press of America/Hamilton Books, 2015.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Resisting the Globalization of Speciesism: Vegan Abolitionism as a Site for Consumer-Based Social Change.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies 9, no. 3 (2011), 9–27.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Nonhuman Animal Rights, Alternative Food Systems, and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.” PhaenEx 8, no. 2 (2013).

Experimenting on Animals

• Blattner, Charlotte. “Rethinking the 3Rs: From Whitewashing to Rights, in Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change.” In Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change, edited by Kathrin Herrmann and Kimberley Jayne, 168–193. Boston: Brill, 2019.
• Bovenkerk , Bernice. “Ethical Perspectives on Modifying Animals: Beyond Welfare Arguments.” Animal Frontiers 10, no. 1 (2020): 45–50.
• Faria, Catia. “A Flimsy Case for the Use of Non-human Primates in Research: A Reply to Arnason.” Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (2018): 332–333.
• Gillespie, Kathryn. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. In Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence, eds J Urbanik and C Johnston. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press (2017).
• Glasser, Carol. “The ABC’s of Vivisection: Animals (Nonhuman), Brutality, and Capitalism.” In Animal Oppression and Capitalism Volume 2: The Oppressive and Destructive Role of Capitalism, edited by David Nibert, 101–114. Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2017.
• Johnson, L. Syd. “The Road Not Mapped: The Neuroethics Roadmap on Research with Nonhuman Primates.” AJOB Neuroscience 11, no. 3 (2020): 176-183.
• Kelz, R. “Genome Editing Animals and the Promise of Control in a (Post-) Anthropocentric World.” Body & Society 26, no. 1 (2020): 3–25. 
• Neuhaus, Carolyn P.  (with Brendan Parent). “Gene Doping-in Animals? Ethical Issues at the Intersection of Animal Use, Gene Editing, and Sports Ethics.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 28, no. 1 (2019): 26–39.
• Neuhaus, Carolyn P. (with Sarah J.L. Edwards, Charles H. Norell, Phyllis Illari, and Brendan Clarke). “A Radical Approach to Ebola: Saving Humans and Other Animals.” American Journal of Bioethics 18, no. 10 (2018): 35–42.
• Neuhaus, Carolyn P. “Ethical issues when modelling brain disorders in non-human primates.” Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (2018): 323–327. 
• Neuhaus, Carolyn P. (with Arthur L. Caplan). “Ethical Lessons from a Tale of Two Genetically Modified Insects.” Nature Biotechnology 35, no. 8 (2017): 713–716.
• Piotrowska, Monika. “Rethinking the Oversight Conditions of Human–Animal Chimera Research.” Bioethics (2020).
• Shmuely, Shira. “Alfred Wallace’s Baby Orangutan: Game, Pet, Specimen.” Journal of the History of Biology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09611-8 (2020).
• Tuvel, Rebecca. “Against the Use of Knowledge Gained from Animal Experimentation.” Societies 5 (2015): 220–244.
• Webb, Christine E. (with P. Woodford, and E. Huchard). “The Study That Made Rats Jump for Joy, and Then Killed Them.” BioEssays 42 (2020): 1–2.
• Zambrano, Alexander. “Animal Experimentation as a Form of Rescue.” Between the Species 19, no. 1 (2016): 52–79.

Feminism and Animals

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Comparing Lives and Epistemic Limitations: A Critique of Regan’s Lifeboat from An Unprivileged Position.” Ethics and the Environment 20, no. 1 (2015): 1–21.
• Aavik, Kadri (with Dagmar Kase), 2015. Challenging Sexism While Supporting Speciesism: The Views of Estonian Feminists on Animal Liberation and its Links to Feminism. Journal for Critical Animal Studies 13 (1): 92−127.
• Emmerman, Karen. “What’s Love Got to Do with it? An Ecofeminist Approach to Inter- Animal and Intra-Cultural Conflicts of Interest.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22 (2019), 77–91.
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “Feminist Food Politics.” In Gender: Animals, ed Rheanna S. Parrenas. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender (2017).
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “Industrial Slaughter.” In Gender: Animals, ed Rheanna S. Parrenas. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender (2017).
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “The Loneliness and Madness of Witnessing: Reflections from a Vegan Feminist Killjoy.” In Animaladies, co-edited by Lori Gruen and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey.  Bloomsbury (2018).
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “Sexualized Violence and the Gendered Commodification of the Animal Body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production.” Gender, Place and Culture 21, no. 10 (2014): 1321-1337.
• Glasser, Carol. “Tied Oppressions: How Sexist Imagery Reinforces Speciesist Sentiment.” The Brock Review 12,  no. 1 (2011): 51–68.
• Humphreys, Rebekah (with Kate Watson). “The Killing Floor and Crime Narratives: Marking Women and Nonhuman Animals” in Tattoos in Crime and Detective Narratives: Marking and Remarking, eds Kate Watson and Katherine Cox. Manchester University Press (2019): 170-196.
• Marek Muller, Stephanie. Impersonating Animals: Rhetoric, Ecofeminism, and Animal Rights Law. Michigan State University Press (2020).
• Tuvel, Rebecca. “Epistemic Injustice Expanded: A Feminist, Animal Studies Approach.” Dissertation, Vanderbilt, 2014.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Fifty Shades of Oppression: Unexamined Sexualized Violence against Women and Other Animals.” Relations 2, no. 1 (2014): 135–139.
• Wrenn, Corey. A Rational Approach to Animal Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Wrenn, Corey. “The Role of Professionalization Regarding Female Exploitation in the Nonhuman Animal Rights Movement.” Journal of Gender Studies  4, no. 2 (2015): 131-146. Journal of Gender Studies 24, (2015): 131–146.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State.” In Animal Oppression and Capitalism, edited by David Nibert, 201-230. Santa Barbara: Praeger Press, 2017.

Killing Animals and the Value of Life

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Comparing Lives and Epistemic Limitations: A Critique of Regan’s Lifeboat from An Unprivileged Position.” Ethics and the Environment 20, no. 1 (2015): 1–21.
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “How to Help when it Hurts: ACT Individually (and in Groups) .” Animal Studies Journal 9(1) (2020).
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “How to Help when It Hurts: The Problem of Assisting Victims of Injustice.” Journal of Social Philosophy 47, no. 2 (2016): 142–170.
• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “The Search for Liability in the Defensive Killing of Nonhuman Animals.” Social Theory and Practice 41, no. 1 (2015): 106–130.
• Browning, Heather (with Walter Veit). “Is Humane Slaughter Possible?” Animals 10, no. 5(202): 799.
• Gardner, Molly. “The Interspecies Killing Problem.” In The Moral Rights of Animals, edited by Mylan Engel Jr and Gary Lynn Comstock, 119–140. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “ Provocation from the Field: A Multispecies Doula Approach to Death and Dying.” Animal Studies Journal, 9, no. 1, (2020): 1-31.
• Peña-Guzmán, David M. “Can Nondolphins Commit Suicide?”Animal Sentience (2018):  1–22.
• Peña-Guzmán, David M. “Can Nonhuman Animals Commit Suicide?” Animal Sentience (2017): 1–24.
• Persad, Govind. “Cost-Effectiveness in Animal Health: An Ethical Analysis.” In Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Bob Fischer, 102–114. New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Selter, Felicitas. Planning for the Future. Do Animals Have a Time-Relative Interest in Continuing to Live?  Boston: Brill, 2020.
• Wrenn, Corey. “How to Help When It Hurts? Think Systemic.” Animal Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (2018): 149–179.
• Zuolo, Federico. “What’s the Point of Self-consciousness? A Critique of Singer’s Arguments against Killing.” Utilitas 28, no. 4 (2016): 465–487.

Moral Status of Animals

• Cawston, Amanda. “Admiring Animals.” In Alfred Archer & Andre Grahlé (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Admiration. London (2019): 165-178.
• Foreman, Elizabeth. “Brain-Damaged Babies and Brain-Damaged Kittens: A Reexamination of the Argument From Marginal Cases.” Journal of Animal Ethics 4, no. 1 (2014): 58–73.
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “The Moral Status of Sentient and Non-Sentient Creatures.” In Issues in Ethics and Animal Rights, ed. Manish Vyas. Regency Publications: Delhi, (2011).
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “Suffering, Sentientism, and Sustainability: An Analysis of a Non-Anthropocentric Moral Framework for Climate Ethics.” In Climate Change Ethics and the Nonhuman World, eds. Brian G. Henning and Zack Walsh and the Non-Human World. Palgrave (2020): 49-62.
• Zuolo, Federico. “Misadventures of Sentience: Animals and the Basis of Equality.” Animals  9, no. 12 (2019). 
• Zuolo, Federico. “Individuals, Species and Equality. A Critique of McMahan’s Intrinsic Potential Account.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 50 (2016): 573–592.

Political Theory and Animals

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Political Animals: A Critical Analysis of Aristotle’s Account of the Political Animal.” Journal of Animal Ethics 6, no. 1 (2016): 54–66.
• Cragnolini, Mónica B. “An ‘Other Way of Being:” The Nietzschean ‘Animal’: Contributions to the Questions of Biopolitics.” In Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life, edited by Vanessa Lemm, 214–227. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
• Gillespie, Kathryn and Yamini Narayanan. “Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)making of the Settler Nation-State.” Journal for Intercultural Studies 41, no. 1 (2020): 1-7.
• Gillespie, Kathryn. “Witnessing Animal Others: Bearing Witness, Grief, and the Political Function of Emotion.” Hypatia 31, no. 3 (2016): 572-588. 
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “Contractarianism: On the Incoherence of the Exclusion of Non-Human Beings.” Percipi 2 (2008): 28-38.
• Humphreys, Rebekah (with Robin Attfield). “Justice and Non-Human Beings” (Part I (2016)& Part II (2017)). Bangladesh Jrn. of Bioethics.
• Liberto, Hallie. “Species Membership and the Veil of Ignorance: What principles of justice would the representatives of all animals choose?” Utilitas 29, no. 3 (2020): 299–320.
• Meijer, Eva. “Political Communication with Animals.” Humanimalia 5, no. 1 (2013): 28–52.
• Meijer, Eva. When Animals Speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
• Pepper, Angie. “Beyond Anthropocentrism: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Human Animals.” Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric 9, no. 2 (2016): 114–133.
• Pepper, Angie. “Justice for Animals in a Globalizing World.” In Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues: Towards an Undivided Future, edited by Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, 149–176. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Pepper, Angie. “Political Agency in Humans and Other Animals.” Contemporary Political Theory (2020).
• Pepper, Angie. “Political Liberalism, Human Cultures, and Nonhuman Lives.” In Animals, Race, and Multiculturalism, edited by Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues and Les Mitchell, 35–60. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Sandoval-Cervantes, Ivan. “Semi-Stray Dogs and Graduated Humanness: The Political Encounters of Dogs and Humans in Mexico.” In Companion Animals in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures, edited by Michal Piotr Pregowski, 169–181. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Vink, Janneke. The Open Society and Its Animals. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Toward a Vegan Feminist Theory of the State.” In Animal Oppression and Capitalism, edited by David Nibert, 201-230. Santa Barbara: Praeger Press, 2017.
• Zuolo, Federico. Animals, Political Liberalism, and Public Reason. London: Palgrave, 2020.

Race and Animals

• Boisseron, Bénédicte. Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. Columbia University Press (2018).
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis.  “Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’.” Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 30, no. 6 (2017): 745–64.
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis. “Hidden and Unintended Racism and Speciesism in the Portuguese Animal Rights Movement The Case of Bullfighting.” Theoria 62, no. 3 (2015): 1–18.
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis (with Abraham Olivier). “Racism, Speciesism and Suffering.” In Animals, Race, and Multiculturalism, edited by Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues and Les Mitchell, 147–174. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Cordeiro-Rodrigues, Luis. “White Normativity, Animal Advocacy and PETA’s Campaigns.” Ethnicities 20, no. 1 (2020): 71–92.
• Feliz Brueck, Julia. Veganism in an Oppressive World: A Vegans-of-Color Community Project. Sanctuary Publishers (2017).
• Fielder, Brigitte. “Animal Humanism: Race, Species, and Affective Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Abolition.” American Quarterly 65, no. 3 (2013): 487–514.
•  Gillespie, Kathryn. “Placing Angola: Racialisation, Settler-colonialism, and Anthropocentrism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo.” Antipode 50, no. 5 (2018): 1267-1289.
• Ko, Aph (with Syl Ko). Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters. New York: Lantern Books, 2017.
• Ko, Aph. Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out. New York: Lantern Books, 2019.
• Ko, Syl (with Aph Ko). Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters. New York: Lantern Books, 2017.

Religion and Animals

• Finnigan, Bronwyn. “Buddhism and Animal Ethics.”  Philosophy Compass 12, no. 7 (2017): 1–12.
• Wrenn, Corey. “Atheism in the American Animal Rights Movement: An Invisible Majority.” Environmental Values 28, no. 6 (2019): 715–739.
• Zuolo, Federico. “Equality among Animals and Religious Slaughter (Historical Social Research).” Historical Social Research 40, no. 4 (2015): 110–127.
• Zuolo, Federico. “The Priority of Suffering over Life. How to Accommodate Animal Welfare and Religious Slaughter.” The Ethics Forum/Les Atelier de l’Ethique 9, no. 3 (2014): 162–183.

Utilitarianism and Animals

• McCausland, Clare. “A Utilitarian Argument against Animal Exploitation.” In Engaging with Animals: Interpretations of a Shared Existence, edited by Georgette Leah Burns and Mandy Paterson, 204–224. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2014.

Virtue Ethics and Animals

• Abbate, C.E. (Cheryl) “Virtues and Animals: A Minimally Decent Ethic for Practical Living in a Non-ideal World.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 27, no. 6 (2014):909–929.

Vulnerability and Animals

• Martin, Angela. “Animal Vulnerability and Its Ethical Implications: An Exploration.” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2019).

“Wild” Animal Ethics & the Environment

• Abbate, C.E (Cheryl) (with Bob Fischer). “Don’t Demean “Invasives”: Conservation and Wrongful Species Discrimination.” Animals 9, no. 11 (2019).
• Baker, Liv and Winkler, Rebecca. Asian Elephant Rescue, Rehabilitation and Rewilding. Animal Sentience 28, no. 1 (2020).
• Browning, Heather. “Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Mammoths? De-extinction and Animal Welfare.” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31, no. 4 (2018):483-498.
• Faria, Catia (with Eze Paez). “It’s Splitsville: Why Animal Ethics and Environmental Ethics Are Incompatible.” American Behavioral Scientist 63, no. 8 (2019): 1047–1060.
• Faria, Catia. “Why We Should Not Postpone Awareness of Wild Animal Suffering.” Animal Sentience 7 (2016).
• Humphreys, Rebekah. “Philosophy, Ecology and Elephant Equality.” Animal Sentience 28(11) (2020).
• Marek Muller, Stephanie. “Companion Cyborgs: Untethering Discourses About Wolf-Hybrids.” Environmental Communication (2020).
• Nagy, Kelsi (co-edited with Phillip David Johnson III). Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
• Pepper, Angie. “Adapting to Climate Change: What We Owe to Other Animals.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 36, no. 4 (2019): 592–607.
• Sutton, Zoei and Taylor, Nik.”Managing the Borders: Static/Dynamic Nature and the ‘Management’ of ‘Problem’ Species.”Parallax, 25(4) (2020): 379-394.

Wittgensteinian Approaches

• Monsó, Susanna (with H. Grimm). “An Alternative to the Orthodoxy in Animal Ethics? Limits and Merits of the Wittgensteinian Critique of Moral Individualism.” Animals 9 (2019).

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*The SSEA is grateful to Alyse Spiehler, Doctoral Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her help with the formatting of this bibliography and the several additions she made to the list.