Moving Toward Multi-Species Justice

Abstract This article engages with the concept of multi-species justice as an avenue toward incorporating justice and recognition for the more-than-human world. It identifies several elements crucial to a debate on multi-species justice. Sentience and the animal turn in political philosophy have brought a novel dimension to the discussion of political rights. From this follows a discussion on whether a rights-based approach to multi-species relations is a step toward just representation for the more-than-human world. This is juxtaposed with the rights of nature approach and a focus on legal personhood. The conclusion drawn in this article is that a rights-based approach to multi-species justice offers potential for integrating multi-species concerns into political representation but that there is also a need for integrating recognitional justice.