Decolonizing Animal Welfare through a Social Justice Framework

CARE focuses on comprehensive human and animal well-being through the pursuit of community wisdom that will drive lifesaving activities in marginalized communities. Doing so requires adopting transformative justice principles into a human and animal well-being framework.
As a result, community engagement strategies and programs will result impacted by more welcoming, culturally competent, and responsive spaces for BIPOC communities in animal welfare. Animal welfare must expand the narrow notion of well-being to include critical justice issues like gender and sexual diversity, racial equity, economic and housing security, disability rights, and environmentalism.

Categories: Public, Research
Tags: HAB, human-animal bond, opinion, research
Author: Johnny L Jenkins Jr, Mueni L Rudd
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