The talk will analyze how a concern for anti-racism shaped the 2022 decision by the New York Court of Appeals to authorize the continued captivity of Happy, an elephant at the Bronx Zoo.

The talk will also discuss why the dissociation of humans from animals is counterproductive to eliminating racism and other intra-human prejudices and inequities.

This is the presentation of her paper at: https://phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/phair/article/view/10147

The talk is free but requires registration. You can register here.

Bio:

Maneesha Deckha is a Professor and Lansdowne Chair in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria in Canada, where she also directs the Animals & Society Research Initiative. Currently (in the spring of 2024), she is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Zurich, affiliated with the Center for Animal Law and Ethics, and a Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum at ETH. Professor Deckha is a senior scholar in the field of animal law and ethics, known especially for her expertise in addressing how animal issues intersect with human rights and social justice issues addressed by feminist and postcolonial theories. She is the author of Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders (Toronto: University of Toronto, 2021).

Discussants:

• Anna Mulà. Intercids
• Carlos Contreras López. President de la Comissió de Protecció dels Drets dels Animals de l'ICAB