…ffairs Attorney in the Wildlife Law Program at Friends of Animals, an international non-profit animal advocacy organization. Rachel innovatively engaged the Capabilities Approach to explore the complexity of animal lives. In three papers that she co-authored with Martha Nussbaum, she advanced the argument for considering cetaceans (whales and dolphins) as “non-human persons”, with the right to legal status under certain circumstances, and also cri…
HDCA Webinar: Rethinking Participatory Research in the Pandemic Era
…The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives and livelihoods across the world and disrupted the ways in which we experience our capabilities everyday. There is a new normal emerging in all spheres of life as we endeavour on one hand to save ourselves from COVID-19, and, on the other hand, engage ourselves in activities that are both necessary and meaningful for our existence and flourishing as human beings. In these times of the pandemic, for u…