Author profile: Azeezah Kanji

Azeezah Kanji received her Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, and LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She serves as Programming Coordinator at Noor Cultural Centre, a Muslim academic and cultural institution in Toronto. She is also a regular contributor to Canadian media on issues of race and law, including in the Toronto Star, the National Post, and Rabble. Azeezah delivered University of Toronto’s 2016 Hancock Lecture on national security, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism in Canada.

Colonial Animality: Canadian Colonialism and the Human-Animal Relationship

Azeezah Kanji • Jul 3 2017 • Articles

De-anthropocentricizing ventures that do not decolonize are perilous, for neither non-human nor human colonial subjects can be ‘recognized’ into liberation.

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