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

2. 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

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

4. 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)