While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political parties dedicated to animals.

Manuel Arias Maldonado, University of Málaga, Spain Kurtis Boyer, Lund University, Sweden Clemens Driessen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Chad Flanders, Saint Louis University School of Law, USA Simon Otjes, Groningen University, The Netherlands Christie Smith, University of Exeter, UK Per-Anders Svärd, Stockholm University, Sweden Mihnea Tanasescu, Free University, Brussels, Belgium

Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors 1. Introducing Animal Politics and Political Animals; Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg PART I: THE POLITICIZATION OF THE ANIMAL ADVOCACY DISCOURSE 2. Rethinking the Human-Animal Divide in the Anthropocene; Manuel Arias Maldonado 3. An Agenda for Animal Political Theory; Marcel Wissenburg 4. Public Reason and Animal Rights; Chad Flanders PART II: THE RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN ANIMAL ETHICS AND ECOLOGISM 5. Articulating Ecological Injustices of Recognition; Christie Smith 6. Ecological Justice for the Anthropocene; David Schlosberg 7. Animal Deliberation; Clemens Driessen PART III: THE INTRODUCTION OF LAWS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANIMALS 8. Animal Party Politics in Parliament; Simon Otjes 9. The Limits of Species Advocacy; Kurtis Boyer 10. Slaughter and Animal Welfarism in Sweden 1900 1944; Per-Anders Svärd 11. The Rights of Nature: Theory and Practice; Mihnea Tanasescu