5/19/2023 0 Comments Merchant the death of nature![]() In this perspective, veganism emerges as an essential step on a long journey towards building ethical relationships with nonhuman others. Her take on animal Others also challenges the way humans hyperseparate themselves from nonhuman animals, background, homogenise and instrumentalise them through the ‘the abstractly quantitative and commodified concept of meat’ (Plumwood, Environmental Culture 156). I examine Plumwood’s critique of dualism and anthropocentrism and how it reflects a particular Australian vision of nature. ![]() I focus on the work of Australian philosopher and feminist Val Plumwood to work through these issues. ![]() Building on existing literature, I argue that ecofeminist theories can help deepen our thinking about our relationship with animals and the more-than-human world about our intersectional struggle to end oppression and about putting this into practice, especially in relation to food. The paper considers how ecological feminist philosophies can enrich the animal advocacy movement and its liberatory politics and ethics. ![]()
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