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A brief outline is drawn indicating how the protection of the interests of animals might apparently be in conflict with the preservation of some cultural norms or may at times appear racist in theory or action. There is also a brief review of the different chapters, outlining their areas of enquiry and special perspectives they might use.
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Garner, A Theory of Justice for Animals; Donaldson and Kymlicka, Zoopolis; Cochrane, Animal Rights without Liberation.
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Kymlicka and Donaldson, “Animal Rights, Multiculturalism, and the Left”; Deckha, “Welfarist and Imperial”.
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Schaffner, An Introduction to Animals and the Law.
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Kymlicka and Donaldson, “Animal Rights, Multiculturalism, and the Left”.
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Barry, Culture and Equality; Cordeiro-Rodrigues, “Hidden and Unintended Racism and Speciesism in the Portuguese Animal Rights Movement”.
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Cordeiro-Rodrigues, “Hidden and Unintended Racism and Speciesism in the Portuguese Animal Rights Movement”.
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Shachar, Multicultural Jurisdictions.
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Kim, Dangerous Crossings; Deckha, “Welfarist and Imperial”.
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Francione, Rain without Thunder; Garner, A Theory of Justice for Animals; Adams, Sister Species; Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions.
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Horsthemke, Animals and African Ethics.
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Bilchitz, “When Is Animal Suffering ‘Necessary’?”; Bilchitz, “Does Transformative Constitutionalism Require the Recognition of Animal Rights?”; Bilchitz, “Should Religious Associations Be Allowed to Discriminate?”
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Kim, Dangerous Crossings.
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We define these terms rather broadly, given the variety of authors in this volume. Multiculturalism refers to the coexistence of different cultures; racism is defined as the hierarchisation of individuals, according to socially perceived racial traits; ethnocentrism is the assessment of other cultures’ value by using standards of one’s own culture.
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Cordeiro-Rodrigues, L., Mitchell, L. (2017). Introduction. In: Cordeiro-Rodrigues, L., Mitchell, L. (eds) Animals, Race, and Multiculturalism . The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66568-9_1
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