Governing Animals, Governing Humans: Animal Protection Politics and the Government of Human?Animal Relations in European and Global Politics (Voices in International Relations)

Governing Animals, Governing Humans offers a Foucauldian analysis of contemporary European and global animal protection politics as the neoliberal government of human-animal relations.

Judith Renner, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Potsdam

Judith Renner is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations (IR) at the University of Potsdam. Before coming to Potsdam, she held positions as a Lecturer and Researcher at the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich where she received a Dr. phil. in Political Science in 2011. Her current research focusses on questions of (global) human-animal relations and their possible integration in IR research. Before, she has worked on human rights, transitional justice, memory politics, and global norms. Her theoretical focus is on poststructuralist approaches to politics and IR.