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Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law
Thesis (LLD)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132384 Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law Uys, Hugo Botha, Henk Du Toit, Louise Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Law. Dept. of Public Law. Animal rights -- Law and legislation Human-animal relationships Animals rights -- Moral and ethical aspects Posthumanism Animal welfare -- Law and legislation UCTD Thesis (LLD)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Uys, H. 2025. Framed and Caged: Theorising the Vulnerability of Animal Bodies Before the Law. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/1cf68853-6d99-49a0-b102-ba4ab9a64fee ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It comes as no surprise that scholars in law and philosophy widely recognise that contemporary society routinely inflicts severe and wide-scale suffering on animals. Consequently, there have been various attempts to harness the coercive force of law to alleviate the societal subjugation of animals. Yet, despite their laudable aims, animal advocacy efforts remain largely ineffective at realising a wide-spread transformation of human-animal relations. One significant challenge for these animal advocacy efforts is the law’s failure to confront its own complicity in enabling and maintaining the ongoing suffering of animals, and hence its own inability to meaningfully prevent, intervene, and/or redress animal subjugation. As such, this study offers a sympathetic critique of contemporary animal advocacy. It asks whether, and to what extent, a philosophico-theoretical framework which recognises the intercorporeal vulnerability of (human and nonhuman) animal bodies might displace anthropocentrism as a quasi-transcendental limit of the law. This question is considered by reading critical legal theory through the emerging posthumanities to outline a posthuman legal theory whence to pursue the future postanthropocentric development of animal law. Given its pervasiveness, a critique of anthropocentrism as a limit of thought and imagination implicates not just an isolated field of study, but cuts across all aspects, fields, institutions, values, beliefs, and practices of contemporary society. Accordingly, this study adopts a post-disciplinary poethical approach – a method at once critical and creative – to show and enact the possibility of post-anthropocentric law. To this end, it draws generously on a number of discourses emerging from the critical (post)humanities – such as decolonial studies, critical animal studies, contemporary feminism(s), post-phenomenology, the Black radical tradition, environmental studies, and somatechnics. Out of the various connections and tensions between these discourses, this study composes a renewed conceptual register – of animal flesh, ‘the (e)rectitude of the (hu)man’, fractal entre-deux(s), and juridical economies – with which to trouble anthropocentrism as a quasi-transcendental limit of legal theoretical discourse. Ultimately, the study calls for a renewed liberatory ethico-onto epistemology whence and whereby we might (yet) reimagine embodiment, animality, and law – that is, the very World as we know it. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar. Doctoral 2025-06-05T11:44:51Z 2025-06-05T11:44:51Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132384 en Stellenbosch University x, 348 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Animal rights -- Law and legislation Human-animal relationships Animals rights -- Moral and ethical aspects Posthumanism Animal welfare -- Law and legislation UCTD Uys, Hugo Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| title | Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| title_full | Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| title_fullStr | Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| title_full_unstemmed | Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| title_short | Framed and caged : theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| title_sort | framed and caged theorising the vulnerability of animal bodies before the law |
| topic | Animal rights -- Law and legislation Human-animal relationships Animals rights -- Moral and ethical aspects Posthumanism Animal welfare -- Law and legislation UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132384 |
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