Zoonotic disease pandemics such as COVID-19 present us with an opportunity to reframe how we understand capitalism by visibilising the role animals are forced to play in its processes, and the forms and spaces of human-animal contact that are dominant in our world. The [...]
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The future of coal is in doubt. Declining coal production and major challenges to coal mine approvals in Australia are now established trends. Renewable energy is set to become over half of the nation’s domestic electricity production by 2030.
This is good news for human and [...]
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‘Social Justice’ is a powerful concept, evoking ideas of equality, democracy, freedom from violence and fairness. However, social justice has almost always been thought of through a human lens, as a way to achieve fairer outcomes within human societies. Campaigns to save rainforests or end [...]
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The place of animals in relation to left movements has been highly uncertain. On one hand, there has been at least some historical ambivalence from the organised left around animal welfare as essentially a bourgeois pursuit, something that was reflected in Marx’s brief comments on the issue [...]
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