Toward an Interspecies Politics

Interspecies Politics seeks to reveal how nonhuman actors and agents participate in and generate forms of global political life. Offering a compelling political view of international relations as “already interspecies relations,” it delivers on its central ambition of showing how sovereignty, borders, power, and security—the very core of global politics—can be understood in terms of multispecies practices. An astute challenge to the assumption that “species should be a central barrier to who can be part of global politics,” Interspecies Politics considers—in distinctly political terms—the interspecies complexity of global relations. Appearing within a context of increasing scholarly attention to nonhuman aspects of political life, Youatt’s book provides timely and urgent theoretical innovations rooted in concrete forms of interspecies interaction.