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Can European humans relate to non-humans in non-objectifying relationships?

This site comes in two different flavours with two different levels of difficulty.

If you are a newcomer, the “short version” dropdown is a good place to start: it is an easy way to get into something that originally came from a PhD thesis.

If you are an old hand, start anywhere!

We seem to have lost the habit since the Enlightenment.

We have also - through colonialism - created a gap in Indigenous societies’ ability to do so. But their gap is smaller. If we learn from and with them, maybe we can become better neighbours to everyone.