This thesis is concerned with acknowledging farm animals and their co-presence in the more-than-human space of the livestock farm, and with accounting for them responsibly in sustainability debates. The enrolment of farm animals as actors in political agendas for environmental s…
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Are we cyborgs or humans? This question is at the heart of this investigation, and the implications of it are all around us. In Christian theology, humans are seen as uniquely made in the image of God (imago dei). This has been taken to mean various things, but broadly, it sugge…
The Mental Capacity Act 2005, and the domestic law surrounding it, is currently in a state of instability, having undergone rigorous scrutiny by the House of Lords Select Committee. At an international level, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabiliti…
This dissertation compares and contrasts the performance works of two Indigenous transdisciplinary artists who have historically been discussed as dancers or choreographers: Yup’ik artist Emily Johnson and Seneca artist Rosy Simas. By considering their dance works alongside thei…
This project, upon taking a close look at the poetics of NourbeSe Philip and Robin Blaser, investigates how centralizing absence as integral to the postmodern poetic process is actually antithetical to the aim of bringing others forward1. I argue that in order for a writer to en…
Does awareness of interdependence with human and nonhuman others produce a moral commitment to social responsibility? This dissertation examines “interdependence” in its political, economic, quanto-bio-cosmic, and moral theological dimensions in order to assess its normative val…
The history of philosophy has been haunted by a singular dilemma manifesting itself in two ways. Metaphysically, it manifests as the One/Many problem: if Being is primarily one, then how do we account for multiplicity, if, however, it is fundamentally many, then how can there be…