Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV | doi:10.1163/15685306-bja10025 © Richard Twine, 2020 | ISSN: 1063-1119 ( print) 1568-5306 ( online) society & animals 31 (2023) 105–130 brill.com/soan Viewpoints ∵ Where Are the Nonhuman Animals in the Sociology of Climate Change? Richard Twine Centre for Human/Animal Studies & Department of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK richard.twine@edgehill.ac.uk Abstract The emergence of interdisciplinary animal studies during recent decades challenges sociologists to critically reflect upon anthropocentric ontology and to paint a more comprehensive picture of the social. This article focuses on the recent emergence of the sociology of climate change during the last twenty years, with a warning that it may have proceeded without critical interrogation of residual humanism evidenced by the exclusion of nonhuman animals. The inclusion of these nonhuman animals in the dis- cussion of human/animal relations is vital in the societal discourse of climate change. After surveying key texts and leading journal literature, it is clear that this discussion of human/animal relations is lacking or altogether omitted. It is then worth considering how animalized environmental sociology could contribute to redefining the discipline of sociology as a whole. Keywords Animal Studies – animal-industrial complex – climate change – environmental sociology – sociology Downloaded from Brill.com03/19/2023 11:43:17AM via free access