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Rafi Youatt

Climate & Ecology

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

An excerpt from Interspecies Politics

March 12, 2024 • by Rafi Youatt
The biggest challenge posed by the question of wild animal sovereignties is to the operation of human sovereignty, which itself is figured through animality and in some cases through animals....

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Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale
Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Sex Life of a Vector

Why do rats matter?

April 5, 2023 • by Evangeline Riddiford Graham
Rats continue to bear witness, and the close quarters of our shared history, as well as our many assassination attempts (on their bodies and on their characters), have surely sharpened rats’ noses to the whiff of human hypocrisy....

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