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Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of self-recognition. But like all non-human animals, Happy is considered a thing in the eye of the law, with no fundamental rights. Due to a series of ground-breaking legal cases, however, this is beginning to change, and Happys liberation is at the forefront. A vibrant and personal graphic novel, Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood traces this moving story and makes the legal and scientific case for animal personhood. Led by lawyer Steven M. Wise and aided by some of the worlds most respected animal behaviour and cognition scientists, the Nonhuman Rights Project has filed cases on behalf of non-human animals like Happy since 2013. Through this work, they have forced courts to consider the evidence of their clients cognitive abilities and their legal arguments for personhood, opening the door for similar cases worldwide. In Thing, comic artists Sam Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado bring together Wises ground-breaking work and their powerful illustrations in the first graphic nonfiction book about the animal personhood movement. Beginning with Happys story and the central ideas behind animal rights, Thing then turns to the scientists that are revolutionising our understanding of the minds of non-human animals such as great apes, elephants, dolphins, and whales. As we learn more about these creatures inner lives and autonomy, the need for the greater protections provided by legal rights becomes ever more urgent. With cases like Happys growing in number and spanning from Argentina to India, nations around the world are beginning to recognise the rights of animals. Combining legal and social history, innovative science, and illustrated storytelling, Thing presents a visionary new way of relating to the nonhuman world. See more
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  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Island Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781642830859

About Cynthia Sousa MachadoSam MachadoSteven M Wise

Cynthia Sousa Machado and Sam Machado are the-husband-and-wife team behind the cartoons I Got This and If I Don't Get Pants. Their work together involves identity politics and social justice issues. Their editorial cartoons have been found in the Guardian The New Republic and Redbook. You can find their webcomic Cyberbunk on LINE Webtoon. Cynthia and Sam live and illustrate in Miami FL. Steven M. Wise is founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project. He has practiced animal protection law for 30 years throughout the US and is the author of four books: Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals; Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights; Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery; and An American Trilogy: Death Slavery and Dominion Along the Banks of the Cape Fear River. Wise has taught Animal Rights Law at Harvard Stanford and seven other law schools. He holds a J.D. from BU Law School and a B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary.

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