Jacques Rancière and the politics of animal rights: The aesthetic of legal subjectivity and the politization of the social

Authors

  • Leonardo Monteiro Crespo de Almeida Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v64i2.65413

Keywords:

Rancière. Aesthetic. Animal’s rights. Politics.

Abstract

This research main objective is to approach some specific problems of animality within legal studies through Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy. It intends to point out conditions that allows or blocks the animal’s representation in the legal field. The construction of the legal subject is conceived, in this research, as a product of the formulation of political demands, especially when those individuals have no institutional visibility. There are certain patterns of institutional and political narratives that pose considerable difficulties to the legal representation and protection of animal’s integrity, some of them dictated by powerful economic interests. In a nutshell, the article highlights the relevance of opening up theoretical investigations concerned with new modes of legal forms that would take into account the suffering and the precarious condition of non-human entities, above anthropocentric presuppositions and economical reasoning of costs and benefits.

Author Biography

Leonardo Monteiro Crespo de Almeida, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

Doutor em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito do Recife/UFPE. Mestre em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito do Recife/UFPE. Bacharel em Direito pela AESO. Bacharel em Filosofia pela UFPE.

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Published

2019-08-30

How to Cite

Almeida, L. M. C. de. (2019). Jacques Rancière and the politics of animal rights: The aesthetic of legal subjectivity and the politization of the social. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 64(2), 161–182. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v64i2.65413

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Vol. 64 No. 2 (2019)

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