S6E2: Cosmopolitanism with Angie Pepper

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In this episode, Claudia talks to Angie Pepper about cosmopolitanism. Angie explains how despite cosmopolitans having an expansive view of justice, animals are rarely accounted for. They discuss the challenges of including animals in cosmopolitan thought and mull over what animals might be entitled to.

Date Recorded: 24 August 2023.

Angie Pepper is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton in London. Angie's philosophical background is in contemporary political philosophy, applied ethics, normative ethics, and feminist philosophy, and her recent research focuses on what we owe to other animals. She has published papers on the place of nonhuman animals in our theorising about global justice, and on what we owe to them as a matter of climate justice. She has also defended the following claims (among others): that sentient nonhuman animals have a right to privacy, that few nonhuman animals are political agents, that sentient nonhuman animals have a right to self-determination, that non-euthanasia killing in animal shelters is sometimes morally permitted, and that we shouldn't support zoos. Angie's latest projects focus on the normative significance of nonhuman animal agency; in other words, what other animals do and why it matters morally, socially, and politically. She is especially interested in whether domestication is compatible with animals' interests in self-determination and the demands of justice. Angie is a regular contributor to Justice Everywhere. You can learn more about Angie’s work on Research Gate.

Featured:

• Beyond Anthropocentricism: Cosmopolitanism and Nonhuman Animals by Angie Pepper
• What comes after entanglement by Eva Haifa Giraud
• Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets by Yi-Fu Tuan
• Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation by Gary Francione

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Cosmopolitanism and the Human Subject (00:03:12)

3. Cosmopolitanism and Spatial Inclusion (00:07:35)

4. Justice (00:11:25)

5. Well being and suffering (00:15:00)

6. Relational and Non-Relational Cosmopolitanism (00:17:20)

7. Borders and Governance Gaps (00:22:30)

8. How are animals part of the cosmopolitan view? (00:29:00)

9. Competing demands and scales of consideration (00:33:44)

10. [Ad] Birds of a Feather Talk Together (00:35:40)

11. (Cont.) Competing demands and scales of consideration (00:36:27)

12. Multispecies and Interspecies Entitlements (00:41:16)

13. The politics of Pet Keeping (00:45:46)

14. Quote (Gary Francione) (00:55:46)

15. Pets, Property, Entitlements (01:02:06)

16. What are you working on now? (01:08:31)

17. Animal Highlight - Maguey Worm (01:10:02)

18. Credits (01:22:52)