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- Title
SİYASAL TOPLUMUN TESİSİNDE İNSAN-MERKEZCİLİKTEN ÇIKIŞ: DONALDSON VE KYMLİCKA'DA EVCİLLEŞTİRİLMİŞ HAYVANLARIN VATANDAŞLIK HAKLARI ÜZERİNE.
- Authors
ÇANKAYA EKSEN, Gaye
- Abstract
In their book Zoopolis. A Political Theory of Animal Rights, Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka argue that non-human animals can have the right to be represented in the political arena by reliable human proxies, but they should better have the right to directly participate in the political processes of the community in which they live. Donaldson and Kymlicka assert that nonhuman animals -particularly domesticated animals- have specific capacities to express and represent themselves in political communities composed of humans and non-human animals. Through a genuine understanding of democracy, shaped by the ideas that animals can have a 'voice' in the political arena and that they can have direct participation in political communities, we can establish a society founded on principles that respect the rights and interests of the animals we live with and we can consider these principles as a part of the political agenda that shapes deliberative processes in the political community. In this paper, we will discuss Donaldson's and Kymlicka's political approach to the animal rights debate particularly by focusing on their understanding of citizenship rights for domesticated animals. We will refer to their political theory of animal rights as a promising theoretical context for a case study that has recently led to significant debates on animal rights in Turkey about prohibiting horse carriages in Princes' Islands.
- Publication
Academic Journal of Philosophy / Felsefi Düşün, 2022, Issue 19, p97
- ISSN
2148-0958
- Publication type
Article