Braverman I. (ed.) Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities

London: Routledge, 2015 — 248 p. — ISBN10: 1138943118; ISBN13: 978-1138943117.Typically, the legal investigation of nonhuman life, and of animal life in particular, is conducted through the discourse of animal rights. Within this discourse, legal rights are extended to certain nonhuman animals through the same liberal framework that has afforded human rights before it. Animals, Biopolitics, Law envisions the possibility of lively legalities that move beyond the humanist perspective. Drawing on an array of expertise — from law, geography, and anthropology, through animal studies and posthumanism, to science and technology studies — this interdisciplinary collection asks what, in legal terms, it means to be human and nonhuman, what it means to govern and to be governed, and what are the ethical and political concerns that emerge in the project of governing not only human but also more-than-human life.Foreword "Life" and "the Living," Law and Norm
Introduction: Lively LegalitiesThe Regulatory Life of Threatened Species Lists
Probiotic Legalities: De-Domestication and Rewilding Before the Law
Governing Jellyfish: Eco-Security and Planetary "Life" in the Anthropocene
Tracing Bacterial Legalities: The Fluid Ecologies of the European Union's Bathing Water Directive
Crow Kill
Nonhuman Animal Resistance and the Improprieties of Live Property
Lively Sanctuaries: A Shabbat of Animal Sacer
Multispecies Families, Capitalism, and the Law
The Conflict of Human and Nonhuman Laws
Lively Agency: Life and Law in the Anthropocene
Afterword Lively Ever After: Beyond the Cult of ImmaterialityNotes on Contributors