The magpies: reflections on liminality, domestication, and animal agency

Pepper, Angie and Healey, Richard ORCID: 0000-0001-5568-2086 (2024) The magpies: reflections on liminality, domestication, and animal agency. In: Arcari, Paula, (ed.) Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders: Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals. Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 99 - 112. ISBN 9781032433004

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Abstract

Are domestication and justice compatible? This chapter utilises reflections from the authors’ relationship with two magpies as a springboard for thinking about the wrongs of domestication. The chapter argues that reflection on liminal animals’ agential capacities and powers shines a light on the structural injustice inherent to relationships between humans and domesticated animals. In short, the practices and processes of domestication inevitably expose animals to unnecessary risk of harm and unjustifiably curtail their abilities for self-determination. The chapter ends by considering and rejecting the claim that domesticated animals are better off than liminal animals since we can cater for their every need.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	© 2025 selection and editorial matter, the editor; individual chapters, the contributors.
Divisions:	CPNSS
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) Q Science > QL Zoology
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2025 09:48
Last Modified:	03 Jan 2025 17:54
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126553

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