Between humans, animals and the animalised. Identity, difference and speciesist anthropocentrism
Keywords:
Bond, colonisation, difference, identity, speciesism.Abstract
From a standpoint where differences generate inequality because of the hegemonic discourses of race, gender, class, species, etc., the differences between human beings-animals are analysed as a dichotomy that transcends what is merely descriptive or taxonomic at a species level. This is evidenced as part of the naturalisation of a social control that exerts its power through biopolitical processes which establish a hierarchy for forms of life, building hyperdiscriminated, subordinate and non-interdependent identities with the purpose of setting out a colonial, anthropocentric, speciesist and non-ecosystemic order. Said
device would only weigh sentient lives in terms of a universal kind of humanity, naturalising an expropriating and rational
ideology which desacralises and empties animals and land from metaphor, as well as other “animalised" sapiens by expelling the transcendent categories. At the same time, this animal-human being differentiating dichotomy would be supported by projective mechanisms of expulsion over subordinated “others”, in a way in which anything that is not part of said anthropocentric ideal will continue to be established as an identity for both animals and the “animalised" by means of discrimination and cruelty. Thus,
every form of hybrid contact which could “contaminate” the rationale that differentiates identities would be avoided. This
is where Anthrozoology, as an Interdisciplinary field, could assist in building an interspecies rationale to descentralise the
hegemonic places where intelligibility and dignity are generated towards forms of life, as well as the content and ways of producing knowledge that are conditioned by epistemic and disciplinary colonialisms.
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