Abstract

CARMAN, María. Animality in question: rights, ontologies, moralities and politics. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.1, pp.195-208. ISSN 1852-060X.

Abstract This article critically examines anti-speciesism, a school of thought that serves to support animal rights advocacy. After briefly reviewing the history of this approach I will comment on the main features of the animal turn. In my view, there is nothing really new or substantially anti- status quo/counter-hegemonic in these claims. First of all, Western thought is revising -within its own horizon of understanding- what many indigenous societies have experienced in their everyday lives for a long time: attributing humanity to animals and experiencing an interconnection between beings. In addition, the animal turn of thought does not offer a clear political horizon, nor does it consider what would happen if an animal right were to conflict with the survival of a specific human group.

Keywords : anti-speciesism; animal turn; biocentrism; sentiocentrism; anthropocentrism.

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