Activism
American Modernism
animal advocacy
Animal Drag
animal fashion
Becoming Animal
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Chimera
Clown
Deconstruction
Derrida
Disability studies
Drag
Environmental Crisis
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feminist posthumanism
FeministQueer performance
Film
forthcoming
Gender
Human-animal hybridity
Indigenous Environmentalism
Italian Modernism
LGBTQ+ activism
Louisa Casati
Marvel
Mask
Mimesis
Modernist animals
More-than-human
Nudity
Performance art
Phenomenology
posthumanism
Psychoanalysis
Queer
Serpent Dance
Sexual Subcultures
Theatre Creation
Transspecies Worldmaking
Veganism
Product details
- ISBN 9781526184399
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Animal Drag asserts that performing animality is a political act, capable of de-stabilising humanism and constructs of othering, especially species. The volume trots across and crawls through human-animal studies, posthumanism, theories of drag and thus queer theories of performance and adornment too, to argue that critical and conscious acts of animality challenge the audience to reconsider societal shapings of the nonhuman and the human-animal divide. Historically, those othered have also been considered nonhuman. In doing so, Animal Drag also squawks with many other “minority” studies that have worked with Critical Animal Studies as part of illuminating problematic binaries, but through a series of single acts that disrupt these through the one performance. Together, it weaves a wider discourse on the social and material semiotics of “doing human”, to hopefully generate a wider web of care.
Nicola McCartney is an artist and educator, and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies on the Fashion, Jewellery and Textiles programmes at Central Saint Martins. She also works across Fine Art and for external institutions.
