Keywords
posthumanism
animal rights
necropolitics
collective
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Abstract
This paper develops the concept of a posthumanist, more-than-human collective by focusing on conflictual relationships between humans and sewer rats. I propose to look at the absence of empathy in urban rat control programs through the framework of a necropolitics of war and colonization. I seek to examine how an interspecies community may be organized to simultaneously protect human interests and meet the requirements of animals' well-being. I analyze the reasons why the idea of a reduction in animals' suffering does not exist in public discourses on rat eradication. I claim that to create an interspecies collective composed of populations in conflict it is necessary to consider ideas of animal liberation and reconstruct cultural codes concerning rats.References
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