In what ways can we conceptualise cosmopolitanisms which are not solely human? What does it take to embrace other animals as fellow creatures; where and how are such relationships made possible? With a preface by Donna Haraway, Cosmopolitan Animals is the first edited collection to place the question of animals at the centre of cosmopolitical inquiry. Drawing upon recent scholarship on cosmopolitanism and animal studies, the volume asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing, co-existing and 'becoming-with' animals. Edited by a team of six, and featuring chapters by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this collective effort examines knots of human-animal relationships from different angles. It is argued that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; Kaori Nagai PART I: COSMOPOLITICS Introduction; Donna Landry 1. A Time After Copernicus; Simon Glendinning 2. The Cynic As Cosmopolitan Animal; Andrea Haslanger 3. 'Only A Spectacle': Frogs, Cosmopolitics And The Ecological Crisis; Charlotte Sleigh 4. Animal Religion And Cosmonautical Allegories; Caroline Rooney PART II: HOSPITALITY Introduction; Charlotte Sleigh 5. Death-Traps In The Flyways: Electricity, Glass, And Bird Collisions In Urban North America, 1887-2014; Nadia Berenstein 6. The Bullfight In 21st Century Spain: Polemics Of Culture, Art And Ethics 7. Sun-Chieh Liang, Hospitable Animals; Mª Verónica De Haro De San Mateo And Garry Marvin 8. Gandhi's Animal Experiments; Julietta Singh PART III: COMPANIONSHIP Introduction; Karen Jones 9. Becoming Wormy, Becoming Worldly: Parasitic Nematodes As Companion Species; David Andrew Griffiths 10. Baboon Cosmopolitanism: More-Than-Human Moralities In A Multi-Species Community; Samantha Hurn 11. Hounds, Hunting And The Canine-Human Alliance; Karen Jones 12. Horse-Human Companionship: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism Across Eurasia; Donna Landry PART IV: THE POSTCOLONIAL Introduction; Kaori Nagai And Caroline Rooney 13. Iguanas And Enemy Combatants: Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism Through Guantanamo's Creaturely Lives; Terri Tomsky 14. Violent Encounters: 'Stray' Dogs In Indian Cities; Anuradha Ramanujan 15. The Beast In The Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books As An Imperial Beast-Fable; Kaori Nagai