| ID | 161629 |
| Title Proper | Stray dogs, post-humanism and cosmopolitan belongingness |
| Other Title Information | Interspecies hospitality in times of war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Leep, Matthew |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | International Relations scholars have recently begun exploring the politics of human-animal relations in global affairs. Building on Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality and animals, this article theorises possibilities of responsibility to animals in war zones, pushing the limits of what it means to be with and for others regardless of their human or animal otherness. Specifically, I develop a critical account of cosmopolitan belongingness to illustrate how our being on earth is always a ‘being-with’ animal others. In thinking through possibilities of post-human belongingness that could emerge in times of war, cosmopolitanism becomes a futural task, an out-of-time and endless confrontation of past and future opportunities for interspecies togetherness. The theoretical significance of this approach is illustrated with a case study on the killing of stray dogs during the Iraq War. This case reveals a cosmopolitanism calibrated to more fully consider possibilities of human-animal belongingness amidst violence. |
| `In' analytical Note | Millennium: Journal of International Studies Vol. 47, No.1; Sep 2018: p.45-66 |
| Journal Source | Millennium: Journal of International Studies 2018-10 47, 1 |
| Key Words | Cosmopolitanism ; War in Iraq ; Post-Humanism ; Interspecies ; Stray Dogs |