Podcasts
In Tune to Nature podcast
"Animals as Legal Beings Rather than Persons or Objects"
with Law Professor Maneesha Deckha, University of Victoria
Host: Carrie Packwood Freeman
(Wednesday, January 20th, 2021)
Legal scholar Maneesha Deckha explains her novel category of “beingness” to raise the legal status of animals, in her new book Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders (Univ of Toronto Press, 2021). In this 25-minute interview on In Tune to Nature, hosted by Carrie Freeman, Professor Deckha (Univ of Victoria, BC, Canada) explains how feminism, postcolonialism, and critical animal studies informs her less exclusionary and more universal notion of a legal “being” as opposed to some ideal and limiting legal notion of an independent, rational “person.”
In Tune to Nature podcast - Maneesha Deckha
The Animal Turn podcast
Personhood with Maneesha Deckha
In this episode Maneesha Deckha explains the legal concept of personhood, why animal advocates are trying to include animals within the category and the potential of a different concept, ‘Legal Beingness’, to side-step some of the challenges of Personhood as a concept.