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Alfonso Donoso is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. His current research focuses on different aspects of the political turn in animal ethics with a special interest in questions of political morality concerning animals and climate justice, non-anthropocentric political institutions, and the political intersections between animal and environmental ethics. As a Carson Fellow, he will be working on the project A Political Morality of Species Extinction and Intergenerational Interspecies Justice. The first part of the project investigates the role of moral rights when thinking about species extinction and its implications for the legitimacy of the State, while the second one is devoted to the normative constraints that future generations of nonhuman animals and nature (may) impose upon current generations of citizens and the state.
RCC Research Project: A Political Morality of Species Extinction and Intergenerational Interspecies Justice
Selected Publications:
- “Towards A New Framework for Rights of the Biotic Community.” In Rethinking Rights of Nature, edited by Markku Oksanen and Daniel Corrigan (Routledge, forthcoming)
- “New Politics: Sovereignty, Representation, and the Nonhuman.” In Global Changes: Ethics, Politics and Environment in the Contemporary Technological World, edited by Juan Carlos Castilla and Luca Valera. Springer: 2020, pp.45-55.
- “A Territorial Mediation in a Triangular Affair. Towards an Ecological Territorial Sovereignty.” In Controversies in Latin American Bioethics, edited by Martin Hevia and Eduardo Rivera-López. Springer: 2019, pp.219-235.
- “Inmigración y castigo. Contra las leyes de inadmisibilidad penal.” Política y Gobierno 25/1 (2018): 101-123.
- “Representing Non-Human Interests.” Environmental Values 26/5 (2017): 607-628.
- with Alejandra Mancilla, "Doctors with Borders? An Authority-based Approach to the Brain Drain." South African Journal of Philosophy 36/1 (2017): 69-77.