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Short abstract:

This work was an effect of an ethological-ethnographical approach that allowed me to think on some aspects of the interspecies relationship between humans & street dogs in Chilean cities. Thus, the purpose here is to reflect about this relationship through some concepts and an interspecies manifesto

Long abstract:

The spinozian question (what are bodies able to do?) can be translated by some contemporary authors, such as Vinciane Despret and Donna Haraway: 1) What would animals be capable of if we changed their conditions? 2) What would animals say if we proposed good questions? An interesting way to explore these questions can be seen in Chilean cities with a quite peculiar actor: street dogs (quiltros). In this case, I worked on a blended ethological-ethnographical approach that allowed me to reflect on some aspects of this singular antropozoogenesis blending dogs-and-humans-in-the-cities. The aim of this work is to reflect about this collective experience through some concepts. In this sense, I would like to sustain that: 1) this experience produces a new kind of citizenship because it doesnot only happen in different cities, but also involves rights and laws. 2) it creates a kind of reciprocal care and domestication that involves feeding, playing and occupying different public spaces (as public protests); 3) it produces a type of domestic cosmopolitism because it brings the possibility of relationships based on open trust without any priority of some groups or territories (homes). In short, it is possible to say that it creates a kind of an interspecies socialism that is present during different political scenarios and especially now with the popular uprising in Chile (since 2019). The quiltros presence here was active in a shared and articulated political action, especially in demonstrations. Nevertheless, our objective is to explore the post uprising scenario, especially after 2021.