Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025): Political animals: animality, community, and the future body politic (continuous publication)
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Beyond metaphor: towards an embodied, situated, and disobedient multispecies practice

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Martina Davidson
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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Published 2025-10-13

Keywords

  • multispecies,
  • situated ethics,
  • structural speciesism,
  • animal resistance

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DAVIDSON, Martina. Beyond metaphor: towards an embodied, situated, and disobedient multispecies practice. (Des)troços: revista de pensamento radical, Belo Horizonte, v. 6, n. 2, p. e59770, 2025. DOI: 10.53981/destrocos.v6i2.59770. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/revistadestrocos/article/view/59770. Acesso em: 12 dec. 2025.
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Abstract

This article offers a critique of the aestheticization and depoliticization of the multispecies approach in social sciences, art, and academic production. Drawing on a situated and anti-colonial perspective, the text analyzes the risks of turning multispecies into an innocuous category, disconnected from the structural violence shaping human and non-human relations. Methodologically, it combines theoretical review with critical analysis of concrete experiences, exploring themes such as frictions, tactical alliances, animal resistance, and situated cohabitation practices. The central argument asserts that a transformative multispecies ethics requires embodied and politicized practices that confront structural speciesism, colonialism, and capitalism. The article concludes by advocating for an urgent ethical and material commitment to insurgent forms of more-than-human coexistence.

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