Jacob Bull on gender, animal welfare, and the ethics of knowing
A new edited volume explores how dominant knowledge forms have negative effects on more-than-human beings, and how alternative approaches to knowing can help reduce harm and support a healthier planet.
Knowing Life is a new edited volume that challenges dominant forms of knowledge contributing to environmental harm and the marginalisation of more-than-human beings. Bringing together cross-cultural and multidisciplinary voices, the book reimagines who—or what—counts as a knower and what knowledge itself can be.
Jacob Bull, lecturer at the Centre for Gender Research is one of the contributors to this volume on the ethics of multispecies epistemologies. Through his chapter he explores how normative (human) assumptions of sex/gender influence the definition of a ‘good life’ in animal welfare policy and practice, but also how such assumptions come up against, are challenged or exceeded by animal sex/uality.
Contributors: M.J. Barrett, Ralph R. Acampora, Beatrice Marovich, Donovan Schaefer, Wahida Khandker, Kai Horsthemke, Angela Robinson, Laura Terrance, María del Rosario Acosta López, Juan Diego Pérez Moreno, Michael Marder, Brianne Donaldson, Graham Harvey, Jo-Anne McArthur, Javob Bull, Jana S. Rošker, Che Gossett, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, Bligh Somma, David Rothenberg, Daniel M. Stuart, Elisa Aaltola, Gabriele Schwab, Suzanne Bost
Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies
Editor: Brianna Donaldson
Published by Routledge, 2025