TY - CHAP
T1 - Stray agency and interspecies care
T2 - The Amsterdam stray cats and their humans
AU - Meijer, Eva
PY - 2021/4/30
Y1 - 2021/4/30
N2 - This chapter discusses the Stichting Amsterdamse Zwerfkatten (Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation, afterwards SAZ), who work with and for stray cats. In their practices and views they challenge common assumptions about cat subjectivity and agency, the cats’ right to a habitat and social relations, as well as the idea that there is a strict difference between cats and humans. Their approach offers an alternative way of thinking about cat agency and human agency, networks of cat-human relations, sharing the city with cats, and working towards more freedom for cats and humans. In the chapter I examine these relations from the perspective of agency, care, and politics, and investigate whether or not this can function as a model for building new communities with other animals, which centres their agency.
AB - This chapter discusses the Stichting Amsterdamse Zwerfkatten (Amsterdam Stray Cat Foundation, afterwards SAZ), who work with and for stray cats. In their practices and views they challenge common assumptions about cat subjectivity and agency, the cats’ right to a habitat and social relations, as well as the idea that there is a strict difference between cats and humans. Their approach offers an alternative way of thinking about cat agency and human agency, networks of cat-human relations, sharing the city with cats, and working towards more freedom for cats and humans. In the chapter I examine these relations from the perspective of agency, care, and politics, and investigate whether or not this can function as a model for building new communities with other animals, which centres their agency.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-63523-7_16
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85105487203
SN - 9783030635220
SN - 9783030635251
T3 - International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics
SP - 287
EP - 299
BT - Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene
A2 - Bovenkerk, B.
A2 - Keulartz, J.
CY - Cham
ER -