Collection Pluralism and minorities Proof reading 178 Vanessa Cuentas Portocarrero jurídico’ en Caminos para la inclusión en la educación superior. Chile: Fondo editorial Fundación EQUITAS, pp. 190-209. Walsh, K. (2010), ‘Interculturalidad crítica y educación intercultural’ en Construyendo Interculturalidad crítica. La Paz: Instituto Internacional de In- tegración del Convenio Andrés Bello. https://aulaintercultural.org ANALYSIS OF NONHUMAN ANIMALS’ STATUS IN URBAN AREAS THROUGH THE BIOCENTRIC PARA- DIGM: INSTITUTIONALIZING A REPRESENTATIVE MECHANISM TO PROVIDE RECOGNITION OF THE ANIMAL AS A SUBJECT OF THE CITY Giselle Maria Custódio Cardoso Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil Emerson Affonso da Costa Moura Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil 1.- INTRODUCTION e process of city formation, under the influx of capital demands and the influence of certain urbanistic schools, is oriented in essence by the notion of utility in the construction of urban spaces, which reiterates the dominant relations of economic order and the model of social stratification. Allied to the anthropocentric paradigm dominance that prevails on the law in the last historical frames, even the propositions that seek to over- come the stir provoked by asymmetrical cities reducing inequality in the ac- cess of spaces, assets and urban relations, run into the difficulty that is think- ing an urban area for all of its actors. Usually, a restricted dimension of city actors is adopted given its legal regulation — owners, residents, permanent users and private investors — ig- noring though the interface between natural and urban environment, as well as the existence of other beings which integrate the urban space and maintain a relationship with its subjects. Several urban problems involve issues that go beyond the human be-