Anahí Gabriela González

Anahí Gabriela González is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy, Humanities and Arts (FFHA) of the National University of San Juan and a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Argentina. She holds a PhD in Philosophy, awarded through an international joint doctoral program between the National University of San Martín (UNSJ) and Paris 8 University. She currently leads, within the Institute of Philosophy of the FFHA-UNSJ, the research project “Interdependent Bodies and Posthuman Materialities: Ontological, Political, and Aesthetic Controversies in the Neoliberal Era.” She also serves as editor-in-chief of the Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales. Anahí Gabriela González is finally a member of the BIOS collective and of the Ibero-American Network for Critical Animal Studies (RIECA).

The project

Title: Gouvernement des formes de vie : généalogie de la normalité entre zoologie, éthologie et psychiatrie.

"The project aims at contributing to a critical genealogy of normality by analyzing the constitution of conduct as an object of knowledge at the intersection of zoology, ethology, and psychiatry, from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It seeks to reconstruct the circulation of notions such as conduct, adaptation, normality, and deviance, in order to show how they contributed to the governance of human and animal forms of life. The research examines zoos and psychiatric institutions as dispositifs of confinement, observation, and treatment that contribute to the production and regulation of the normal and the abnormal.
The research stay will include archival work at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé. The central hypothesis is that these forms of knowledge and institutional dispositifs constituted a matrix of “zooanthroponormativity,” organizing distinctions between human and animal, wild and domestic, adapted and deviant, in conjunction with ableism, racialization, and European imperial expansion.
The project thus seeks to demonstrate that so-called “abnormal” behaviors are relational effects produced by restrictive institutional environments and can also be interpreted as forms of resistance to confinement."

Hosting institution: Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage (CRAL)

Selective Bibliography

• González, A. G. (2025). « Devenir animal, devenir crip: una política situada de los cuerpos que tiemblan ». Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Críticos Animales, 12(1), 37–76.
• González, A. G. (2024). « Furious and Ferocious Forms: A Cartography of Antispeciesist and Posthumanist Transfeminisms from the Global South ». Dans Chloë Taylor (dir.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals (pp. 344–358). Routledge.
• González, A. G., & Ávila Gaitán, I. D. (2022). Glosario de resistencia animal(ista). Bogotá : Ediciones Desde Abajo et Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Críticos Animales.
• González, A. G. (2021). « Políticas feministas de la animalidad. Decolonialidad, discapacidad y antiespecismo ». Instantes y Azares. Escrituras Nietzscheanas, 26, 123–156.
• González, A. G. (2019). « Lecturas animales de las vidas precarias. El “discurso de la especie” y las normas de lo humano ». Tabula Rasa, 31, 139–159.