Curating Multispecies Justice

Multispecies justice takes the interests of nonhumans—including animals, plants, forests, rivers, and ecological systems—seriously in claims for justice. This means reshaping society, politics, and legal systems to consider nonhuman interests when making decisions. Many philosophers, writers, legal scholars, and Indigenous representatives have recently argued for different forms of multispecies justice to address the profound inequities of the ecological crisis. Artists and cultural institutions have also developed important initiatives to highlight, encourage, and in some cases implement a multispecies-justice approach. This doctoral project will contribute to these debates through theoretical and practice-based research.