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25 Animal L. 415 (2018-2019)
Personal Reflections on Being a Postcolonial Feminist Animal Law Professor

handle is hein.journals/anim25 and id is 437 raw text is: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON BEING A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST ANIMAL LAW PROFESSOR By Maneesha Deckha* The author reflects on her experiences in the field of animal law. A recurring theme throughout the Article is that the author's struggle to see herself being part of the animal law at all. This is because mainstream animal law writing has tended to take a liberal legal approach, while the author has focused her work around concepts of intersectionality, feminist, and postcolonial theory in a field she has self-described as Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Animal Ethics. Consistent with her intersectional ap- proach, the author highlights how her experience being Canadian, being fe- male, and being 'radicalized' have all intersected to shape her experiences and perceptions working in animal law. Her conclusion is that, fundamen- tally, the animal law movement is a women's movement, given it is women who predominate in the membership and, as such, the success and future of animal law depend on whether women's voices on behalf of animals will be listened to and respected. I. AM I AN ANIMAL LAW SCHOLAR? ...................... 415 II. BEING A RACIALIZED FEMALE ACADEMIC FROM CAN AD A ................................................ 417 III. FUTURE INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIZING DIRECTIONS ............................................ 419 I. AM I AN ANIMAL LAW SCHOLAR? Recently, I was asked by another unit on my campus to present an overview of my work during my academic career on animals. It was the first time I received such an invitation and it took me some time to consider how to begin preparing. Eventually, I decided to take my pub- lications and organize them into themes. This method proved effective for the presentation but was also illuminating to me. When I went to categorize my work, I could see that I had assigned a considerable por- tion of my animal-related publications to the broad category I called Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Animal Ethics. These articles did not address any specific law or statute but did discuss the legal status of animals as property in relation to pushing back against the anthro- pocentrism that qualified as critical theory in animal circles. In contin- uing to categorize my work, I also created the categories Animals' * © Maneesha Deckha is Professor and Lansdowne Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada. [4151

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