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In Tune to Nature podcast

"Animals as Legal Beings Rather than Persons or Objects"

with Law Professor Maneesha Deckha, 51³Ô¹Ï
Host: Carrie Packwood Freeman
(Wednesday, January 20th, 2021)

Legal scholar Maneesha Deckha explains her novel category of “beingness” to raise the legal status of animals, in her new book Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders (Univ of Toronto Press, 2021). In this 25-minute interview on In Tune to Nature, hosted by Carrie Freeman, Professor Deckha (Univ of 51³Ô¹Ï, BC, Canada) explains how feminism, postcolonialism, and critical animal studies informs her less exclusionary and more universal notion of a legal “being” as opposed to some ideal and limiting legal notion of an independent, rational “person.”


The Animal Turn podcast

Personhood with Maneesha Deckha

In this episode Maneesha Deckha explains the legal concept of personhood, why animal advocates are trying to include animals within the category and the potential of a different concept, ‘Legal Beingness’, to side-step some of the challenges of Personhood as a concept.

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