Ekaterina B. Nikitina. Ph.D. in Literary Studies (University of Silesia); Posthuman Studies Lab, curator, 119, Mira avenue, build. 246, Moscow, 129223, Russian Federation; ITMO University, lecturer of international Art&Science master’s program, 9, Lomonosova st., Saint Petersburg, 191002, Russian Federation;

e-mail: katya.althea@gmail.com

The article outlines the issues related to the eternal questions about animals’ place in human society, their embedment into economical and political processes which in the face of pandemic lockdown proving once again the conventions of the boundary between culture and nature. The expansion of coronavirus puts – with a new vigor – the questions about violence, care, livestock animals in the center of animal liberation and animal welfare discussions. The pandemic situation also insists on rethinking the planetary diet mode of production, which, without exaggeration, is completely tied to the consumption of animal products. The author analyses what has changed in the relations of animals and their people – in shelters, livestocks and households – under several months quarantine and how the ideas of companionship and care have transformed in the conditions of general isolation and anxiety.

Keywords: animal welfare, animal liberation, COVID-19, livestock animals, domestic violence

DOI: 10.22394/978-5-93255-592-7_10