An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins

Colonial-capitalist animal agriculture is a site of ruin and process ruination. Farmed animals at the heart these agricultural systems become sites production capital accumulation, their bodies genetically coded for commoditization short lives organized around logics extraction. in settler states like United States are simultaneously colonized subjects settler-descendants and, as such, occupy complex position imaginaries anticolonial futures. This article considers possibility flourishing those farmed species never meant to flourish, explaining first how taken-for-granted institution forms part fabric ruination delivered by colonial-capitalism. And yet, even animals’ devastated consumption processes, there exist glimmers radically different conceptualizations multispecies worlds outside farming contexts. analyzes sanctuaries formerly one such possibility. Sanctuaries mark out geographic spaces hope that manifest spite actively against colonial-capitalist logics, where human–animal relationships redefined, articulated, practiced—indeed, they can flourish. As this calls an unthinkable politics beyond