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May 2, 2025

Radical Kinship in the Capitalocene: Interspecies Ontologies and Biopolitical Resistance

Publisher: TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies

Deadline extended to May 23, 2025!

At a time of escalating climate disasters, pandemics, global conflicts, and genocides, it is more urgent than ever to critically examine the (more-than-human) body as a politically charged and contested terrain. In this context, precarious lives across species are increasingly targeted for military, territorial, or economic exploitation while simultaneously rendered surplus, disposable, or commodified (Pugliese 2020; Youatt 2020). These dynamics lay bare the structural violence and inequalities embedded within power systems, ecological ...