This ground-breaking volume by two of the most influential writers in the field makes the radical argument that animals have a right to be recognized as political subjects and agents, and as members of political communities entitled to self-determination.

Acknowledgements Part A. Context 1: The Challenge: Political Exclusion 2: Political Wardship 3: Resistance 4: The Cosmopolitan Temptation Part B. Theory 5: Political Animals 6: Bounded Communities 7: Political Agency Part C. Applications 8: Animal Agora 9: Diplomacy in the Wild 10: Multispecies Commons 11: Conclusion: Realistic Utopias Notes Bibliography Index

Sue Donaldson is a Canadian author and animal advocate. She started her career as a secondary school teacher before becoming a full-time researcher/writer. She has published across multiple genres, but her primary focus is writing about animals and politics. She has published more than 40 academic articles, and is the co-author, with Will Kymlicka, of Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (OUP, 2011) which won the Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2013, and has been translated into 11 languages. She is co-convenor of the Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics research group at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Will Kymlicka received his BA in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his DPhil in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press, including Contemporary Political Philosophy (2nd ed., 2001), Multicultural Citizenship (1996), and Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (co-authored with Sue Donaldson; 2011). He is currently the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. His works have been translated into 34 languages.

Shifts debate from questions of animals' moral status to questions of animals' political status and agency Suggests new links between animal ethics and debates in environmental ethics, decolonial justice, and feminist and disability studies Draws extensively on ethological evidence about animals' sociality and collective decision making