Bonus: Animals and the Right to Politics with Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Claudia talks to political philosophers Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka about their latest book Animals and the Right to Politics. They discuss the differences between societal and placed based politics, unpacking why both are necessary to enable animals’ political engagement. 

Date Recorded: 30 January 2026

Featured: 

• Animals and The Right to Politics by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka 
• Animal agora: Animal citizens and the democratic challenge by Sue Donaldson
• Environmental Ethics as Environmental Etiquette by Jim Cheney and Anthony Weston
• What Comes After Entanglement by Eva Giraud
• Public Things by Bonnie Honig
• The Frontenac Axis
• VINE Sanctuary

Other Episodes of The Animal Turn

• S1E1: Animal Rights with Will Kymlicka
• S2E7: Political Multispecies Communities with Sue Donaldson
• S6E1: Politics with Will Kymlicka
• Bonus: Koalas with Danielle Clode 

A.P.P.L.E
Animals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.

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