'To create a future where humans and other animals are free, we need inspiring visions to guide us. After all, we can only create what we can imagine. Over 14 chapters, this collection offers much needed examples and visions of more liberatory ways of seeing and relating to our animal cousins, providing glimpses of what this promises, and helping us uncover pathways to create these alternative futures.'Dr Laila Kassam, Animal Think Tank, UK'How may genuinely enduring post-liberatory scenarios for (other) animals be realised in the wake of upending human relations of power, violence, and exploitation over them? This essential pragmatic question is startlingly missing in much scholarly and activist work for multispecies liberatory praxis. Conceiving and transcending a visionary manifesto, Arcari’s curation of ‘heretotopia’ takes us across sanctuaries, neighbourhood trees, dovecotes, and design projects to show why and how noticings and imaginings of possibilities otherwise, arising from the ashes of singular knowing, is imperative for liberatory politics to be conceivable, and hence actionable. Each chapter exuding care, this groundbreaking collection, heralding a momentous generational shift in animal studies, composes nothing less than conceptual insurrection, a new political grammar, and critically, a tangible cartography for radicalising human-to-animal alliances.'Associate Professor Yamini Narayanan, Deakin University, Australia
