This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of
philosophical cultural literary and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters
encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal
relations foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already
more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way the essays in this volume can be
understood as a contribution to alternative imaginings of interspecies coexistence in a time in
which the issue of human relations with earth and earth others has come to the fore with
unprecedented force and severity.
