Sue Donaldson

Oct 1, 2024 | theglobeandmail.com | Sue Donaldson |Will Kymlicka

Mar 11, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Sigrid Nunez |Premilla Nadasen |Sue Donaldson |Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart

Excerpted from The Vulnerables (Penguin Random House, 2023)“It was an uncertain spring.”I had read the book a long time ago, and, except for this sentence, I remembered almost nothing about it. I could not have told you about the people who appeared in the book or what happened to them. I could not have told you (until later, after I’d looked it up) that the book began in the year 1880. Not that it mattered.

Jan 29, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Sue Donaldson |Will Kymlicka

Image credit: Pat-s pictures / ShutterstockThe following is an excerpt from an essay first published in Social Research: An International Quarterly. It is part of the journal’s issue Frontiers of Social Inquiry. Consider the growing ethological evidence of how animal communities themselves do face-to-face politics. Many readers will be familiar with the recent explosion of empirical evidence concerning animal societies and cultures.

Dec 6, 2023 | mdpi.com | Sue Donaldson |Laura Janara

1. IntroductionMillions of nonhuman animals experience life and death at the hands of Canadian universities. They are variously caught in the wild, purchased and shipped to or bred at the university, contained in restrictive housing, manipulated, injured, and killed. These practices are overseen by a national quasi-regulatory administrative body, the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC).

Jul 6, 2023 | theanimalturnpodcast.com | Sue Donaldson |Will Kymlicka

Podcaster and philosopher Josh Milburn is on the Animal Turn to talk about his latest book and how the concept of justice is central to imagining a future world in which the rights of animals are respected. Claudia and Josh discuss the political turn in animal ethics, some of the tensions between animal rights and veganism, as well as the role cellular agriculture might play in a future zoopolitical world.