A Defense of Animal Citizens and Sovereigns

Abstract

In their commentaries on Zoopolis, Alasdair Cochrane and Oscar Horta raise several challenges to our argument for a “political theory of animal rights”, and to the specific models of animal citizenship and animal sovereignty we offer. In this reply, we focus on three key issues: 1) the need for a group-differentiated theory of animal rights that takes seriously ideas of member-ship in bounded communities, as against more “cosmopolitan ” or “cosmo-zoopolis ” alternatives that minimize the moral significance of boundaries and membership; 2) the challenge of defining the nature and scope of wild animal sovereignty; and 3) the problem of policing nature and humanitarian intervention to reduce suffering in the wild.

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