Eva Meijer Universiteit van Amsterdam Rethinking political communication with animals: Greeting as a political practice Eva Meijer Universiteit van Amsterdam

Communication in Zoopolis Animals as political actors (Donaldson and Kymlicka) New view of both animals and politics Humans and other animals communicate We need a non-anthropocentric view of language To conceptualize existing encounters and as a foundation for new relationships

Language-games and greeting Language as a collection of language-games (Wittgenstein) Human-animal language-games Interspecies greeting

Greeting as a political practice Greeting as a social practice in human-baboon relations (Smuts) Greeting as political act and condition for political communication (Young) Greeting as a political practice in human-macaque border conflicts (Yeo and Neo)

E.R.Meijer@uva.nl