Animals, Nature & Society Talk Series
-> The Curzon Building, 4 Cardigan St, Birmingham B4 7BD, UK
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The Animals, Nature and Society Research Stream at Birmingham City University (BCU) in collaboration with the UK Centre for Animal Law (ALAW) is delighted to announce that it will be presenting a talk by Professor Alasdair Cochrane and Dr Mara-Daria Cojocaru on 28 January 2025 at 17:00. This will be the inaugural event of a new talk series within the stream. Professor Cochrane and Dr Cojocaru will be speaking about concepts they explore in a recently published edited collection called Solidarity with Animals: Promises, Pitfalls and Potential. The concept of ‘solidarity’ has received considerable scholarly attention in many social justice movements but has been underexplored in the context of animal protection. Focussing on the recent ‘political turn’ in animal ethics, this collection of essays advances the field in two key ways: (1) it emphasizes that mutually beneficial human-animal relations cannot rely solely on personal transformation, but also require institutional transformation; and (2) to meaningfully improve the lives of animals, we must not only change our political systems, but better understand animals’ own perspectives and political agency to feed into ‘more-than-human-politics’. The book and the presentation will focus on how solidarity can be a key concept in advancing these ideas.