Minor players, worlding encounters: The common worlds of children and animals: relational ethics for entangled lives, Affrica Taylor and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, London, Routledge, 2018, 146pp., cloth £120.00; paper £36.99, eBook £33.29, 9781138947597 cloth, 9780367585136 paper, 9781315670010 eBook

An alternative perspective on child-animal connectivity emerges in the last of the substantial chapters (Chapter 6), in which Taylor and Pacini-Ketchabaw discuss the symbiotic relationships between children and dogs in indigenous communities. The concomitant "ecology of obligations" unsettles the utilitarian perspective to human-animal relations, which still dominates the majority of studies on children and animals in the West. This is the landscape from which I The Common Worlds of Children and Animals: Relational Ethics for Entangled Lives i by Affrica Taylor and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw emerges. [Extracted from the article]