Animal Colonialism in North America : Milk Colonialism, Environmental Racism, and Indigenous Veganism

KRÁSNÁ, Denisa. Animal Colonialism in North America : Milk Colonialism, Environmental Racism, and Indigenous Veganism. ACTA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE STUDIA TERRITORIALIA. Praha: KAROLINUM PRESS, 2022, vol. 22, No 1, p. 61-90. ISSN 1213-4449. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2022.9.

Basic information

• Original name: Animal Colonialism in North America : Milk Colonialism, Environmental Racism, and Indigenous Veganism
• Authors: KRÁSNÁ, Denisa (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: ACTA UNIVERSITATIS CAROLINAE STUDIA TERRITORIALIA, Praha, KAROLINUM PRESS, 2022, 1213-4449.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60206 Specific literatures
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/22:00127224
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363231.2022.9
• Keywords in English: animal colonialism; milk colonialism; Indigenous veganism; decolonization; environmental racism; ecofeminism
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Combining insights from postcolonialism, ecofeminism, and critical animal studies, this article focuses on the colonial experience of nonhuman animals in North America whose exploitation has been integral to the colonial expansionist project. By tracing the history of displacement of Indigenous populations due to animal agriculture, animal colonialism is also linked to mass killing of free-living animals and to environmental degradation. Furthermore, the article delineates the entangled oppression of Indigenous women’s and nonhuman animals’ bodies that can be theorized as colonized territories, exploited for profit via the control of their reproductive cycles. To protest the violent industrial animal farming practices that involve torture, slaughter, and mass dairying and are built on racist rhetoric, some Indigenous people adopt contextual Indigenous veganism as an act of political resistance.

Links

• MUNI/A/1478/2021, interní kód MU: Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II

Investor: Masaryk University