Reunidxs en la Frontera: Understanding the Non-Human Animal as an Intersectional Identity

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dc.contributorWilley, Angie
dc.contributorHolland, Sharon P.
dc.contributor.advisorGundermann, Christian
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-17T02:56:14Z
dc.date.available2016-06-17T02:56:14Z
dc.date.gradyear2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-06-17
dc.description.abstractThe main objective of this thesis is to interrupt dominant narratives in Critical Animal Studies that ignore histories of colonization, which shape the experiences of people of color and their conversations about non-human animals. Similarly, this project critiques scholarly and political spaces that make the non-human animal invisible. The idea is to begin thinking about non-human animals in relation to human oppression, especially while learning how both are informed by the concept of the human. Furthermore, my focus is to learn from the oppressed position of people of color as a method of understanding and viewing the complex interweaving relationships of non-human animals in laboring and exploitative systems. Conversely, however, I wish not to focus solely on the negative features of subjectivity, but more so on aspects of survival and resistance. By tracing the history of Spanish colonization and the different modes of Native survival, I ask us to think differently about non-human animal subjectivity in the context of animal husbandry. Additionally, I analyze political and academic spaces and their connections to discourses on speciesism and racism. Alongside broader decolonial and post-humanist work ---personal, activist, and academic---, I have included a veganized native recipe that reflects the complexity of hybridity in colonized subjects. Through personal narrative, I bring into dialogue the voices and experiences of people of color with non-human animals with the goal of creating a space for these conversations. The methods employed in this thesis include historical analysis, cultural interpretation, and story telling.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGender Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/3885
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublicen_US
dc.subjectcolonizationen_US
dc.subjectintersectionalityen_US
dc.subjectnon-human animalsen_US
dc.subjectspeciesismen_US
dc.subjectracismen_US
dc.subjectlaboring bodiesen_US
dc.subjectsurvivalen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectworldingen_US
dc.subjectanimal husbandryen_US
dc.subjectfooden_US
dc.subjectdomesticationen_US
dc.subjectdecolonizationen_US
dc.subjectborderlanden_US
dc.subjectlatinxen_US
dc.subjectanimal rightsen_US
dc.subjectoppressionen_US
dc.subjectdisidentificationen_US
dc.subjectfeminist care ethicsen_US
dc.subjectinclusionen_US
dc.subjectveganen_US
dc.subjectnativesen_US
dc.subjectMexicanen_US
dc.subjectindigenousen_US
dc.titleReunidxs en la Frontera: Understanding the Non-Human Animal as an Intersectional Identityen_US
dc.typeThesis
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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