In this essay, Richard White encourages us to think about why anarchists should embrace the plight of farmed animals, insects and more than human worlds. If anarchism is a understood as a ‘purity of rebellion’ then how might we reflect this more fully in own praxis?
Richard is a Reader in Human Geography at Sheffield Hallam University. Richard’s most recent publications are ‘Critical Animal Studies and Activism’ (2023) and ‘Vegan Geographies: Spaces beyond violences, ethics beyond speciesism’ (2022). Details of these and other publications can be found here.
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