Sue Donaldson

Sue Donaldson (also known as Susan Cliffe; born 1962) is a Canadian writer and philosopher. She is a research fellow affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, where she is the co-founder of the Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (APPLE) research cluster.

Not to be confused with Suzanne Lynch, the New Zealand singer formerly known as Sue Donaldson.
Sue Donaldson
Born1962 (age 58–59)
Pen nameSusan Cliffe
Notable worksZoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011)
Notable awardsCanadian Philosophical Association's Book Prize
SpouseWill Kymlicka

Biography

Donaldson was born in Ottawa in 1962, and has lived most of her life in Eastern Ontario. She currently lives in Kingston, Ontario with her husband, Will Kymlicka.[1]

Writing

Donaldson is a vegan and a philosopher of animal rights. She published a vegan cookbook, Foods That Don't Bite Back, in 2003. She has also co-authored numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals on the topic of animal rights.

In 2004, she published a young adult novel, Threads of Deceit, under the name Susan Cliffe. This monograph is a historical fiction and mystery novel set in nineteenth century Upper Canada.

She published Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, co-written with Will Kymlicka, in 2011. In this book, as well as their other co-authored work on animal ethics, Donaldson and Kymlicka argue for a group-differentiated political conception of animal rights. Drawing upon citizenship theory, they argue that although all animals should be protected by the same fundamental rights, individual animals should have different rights (and different responsibilities) depending on their group membership. Animals who form a part of mixed human/animal society (domesticated animals) should be conceived of as citizens, while animals who are reliant upon the mixed society without being a part of it (liminal animals) should be conceived of as denizens. Wild animals, who live wholly or mostly separately from the mixed human/animal society, should be conceived of as sovereign over their own territory. Intervention to reduce wild animal suffering would accordingly be acceptable if compatible with respect for their sovereignty.[2]

Awards

In 2013, she won the Canadian Philosophical Association's Book Prize, with Will Kymlicka, for their book Zoopolis.[3]

Selected publications

References
  1. "Sue Donaldson". The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  2. Donaldson, Sue; Kymlicka, Will (2011). Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959966-0.
  3. "CPA Past Book Prize Winners". CPA-ACP. Retrieved 2020-06-23.

Further reading
External audio
The Animal Agora with Sue Donaldson, episode 154 of Knowing Animals
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