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Cahiers antispécistes
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DisciplineAnimal ethics
LanguageFrench
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Former name
Cahiers antispécistes lyonnais
History1991–2019
FrequencyQuarterly, annually
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Cahiers antispécistes ("Antispeciesist notebooks"), originally titled Cahiers antispécistes lyonnais ("Lyon antispeciesist notebooks"), was a French-language journal on antispeciesism and animal ethics published from 1991 to 2019. It was founded by David Olivier, Yves Bonnardel and Françoise Blanchon. The journal was published quarterly in its early years and later annually. Its final issue, number 43, was published in August 2019.[1]

History

David Olivier, Yves Bonnardel and three other French activists published the pamphlet Nous ne mangeons pas de viande pour ne pas tuer d'animaux ("We don't eat meat so we don't kill animals") in May 1989, in response to debate about vegetarianism in the animal protection movement in France. Soon afterwards, they contacted Paola Cavalieri, an Italian activist and philosopher, about the possibility of creating a journal.[2]

The journal was founded in 1991 as Cahiers antispécistes lyonnais by Olivier, Bonnardel and Françoise Blanchon. They have been described as the first people in France to use the term antispeciesism and to speak against it.[3] According to the journal's own presentation, its first three editors defined its focus as "to question speciesism and to explore the scientific, cultural and political implications of such a project".[4] The original plan was for similar journals to be published in other French cities; when this did not happen, "lyonnais" was dropped from the title by September 1994.[2]

The journal used the subtitle "revue de lutte pour la libération animale" ("journal of the fight for animal liberation") from its founding to 1996. In 1998, the subtitle was changed to "réflexion et action pour l'égalité animale" ("reflection and action for animal equality").[5]

As well as articles on moral philosophy, Cahiers antispécistes published translations and commentaries of texts by English-language animal rights authors, including Tom Regan and Peter Singer.[6] It also included interviews with figures in the radical animal rights movement.[7] Christophe Traïni described its publication and analysis of antispeciesist texts as "a militant project in itself".[8] The journal also criticised the concept of a species, which one article described as "taxonomic constructions essentially meant to categorise and justify human superiority".[9]

Olivier was editor from 1991 to 2004, and Blanchon from 1991 to 1996. Bonnardel ceased being an editor during the 1990s. Brigitte Gothière and Estiva Reus were editors from 1998 to 2019.[4]

Anthology

La révolution antispéciste ("The antispeciesist revolution"), a selection of twelve texts from Cahiers antispécistes, was published by the Presses Universitaires de France in 2018. In the preface, Renan Larue described the volume as a way to do justice to the journal's writers and editors, whose work he said had for 30 years been "thought on the margins of academia" and had "often encountered complete indifference".[10]

References

  1. Reus, Estiva (August 2019). "Les Cahiers antispécistes" (PDF). Cahiers antispécistes (in French). 43. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. Cherry, Elizabeth Regan (2016). Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States. London: Routledge. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-317-15615-4. OCLC 948511765.
  3. Ruhlmann, P. (2018-02-12). "Voulons nous toujours tuer des animaux?" [Do we still want to kill animals?]. Des utopies (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-05-27. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  4. "Présentation de la revue" [Presentation of the journal]. Les Cahiers antispécistes (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-05-22. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  5. "Tous les numéros" [All issues]. Les Cahiers antispécistes (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-05-18. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  6. Traïni, Christophe (2012). "Between disgust and moral indignation: The socio-genesis of an activist practice". Revue française de science politique. 62 (4): 559. doi:10.3917/rfsp.624.0559. ISSN 0035-2950.
  7. Carrié, Fabien (2018-04-12). "Politicizing Activist Discontent: A Social History of "Vegephobia" in the French Animal Rights Movement". Biens Symboliques. 2.
  8. Traïni, Christophe (2015). The Animal Rights Struggle: An Essay in Historical Sociology (PDF). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-90-485-2703-8. OCLC 966641373.
  9. Gardin, Jean; Estebanez, Jean; Moreau, Sophie (July 2018). "Like a Deer Caught in the Car's Headlights: Spatial Justice and Animals" (PDF). Justice Spatiale. 12: 6.
  10. Bonnardel, Yves; Lepeltier, Thomas; Sigler, Pierre, eds. (2018). La révolution antispéciste [The antispeciesist revolution]. Renan Larue. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-13-079909-2. OCLC 1026490292.