Pablo P. Castelló
Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Ethics
Philosophy
Arts and Science
Specializations / Research Interests
Animals Politics, Animal Ethics
About
Pablo P. Castelló is the 2022-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University. He completed his PhD on “The Language of Zoodemocracy” at Royal Holloway University in London in 2022, and has worked as a Research Assistant at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law (2021-2022).
Pablo’s project at Queen’s develops his theory of “zoodemocracy” – focusing on (i) how animals tell us about the infrastructure they want, the fundamental legal rights they demand, and the common good they co-author; and (ii) the institutional mechanisms for translating animals’ political agency into concrete policies, and law.
He also conducted research at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge and at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law, where he studied how the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia should change in light of the argument advanced by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka that wild animals should have a right to self-determination. His research also engages with ecofeminism, postcolonialism, disability studies, and critical race theory.
Sample open-access articles
‘Conservation After Sovereignty,’ Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy