Christiane Bailey
Coordinator at the Social Justice Centre.
Positions held
| 2025-2026 to today | Collaborator(s), Environmental and animal ethics |
| 2014-2015 | Graduate fellow(s), Fundamental ethics |
Participation in CRÉ events
| 15 May 2026 | De choses à êtres sentients : 10 ans après la réforme du droit animalier |
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| 19 November 2025 | Implication citoyenne et activisme pour la défense des animaux |
| 12 November 2025 | Droit de la faune et de l’environnement |
| 5 November 2025 | Science, médecine et éthique |
| 29 October 2025 | Mêmes êtres animaux, différentes lois – protections juridiques selon les espèces |
| 22 October 2025 | Introduction au droit animalier – de biens meubles à êtres sentients |
| 27 June 2024 | 8th Montreal Social Justice Theory Workshop |
Flagship themes
Biography
Christiane Bailey holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the Université de Montréal, where she completed a thesis entitled “À la mesure du Dasein. La genèse des existentiaux dans la vie animale chez le jeune Heidegger (1919–1926).”
She is currently the Coordinator of Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre and is also an associate member of the Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA) and of the Environmental and Animal Ethics Axis of the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), where she held a graduate fellowship in 2014–2015. She is additionally a member of the APPLE research group (Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics) and of the Observatoire québécois en droit animalier (OQDA).
Christiane’s work focuses on critical and ecofeminist approaches in contemporary animal ethics, as well as on illegal direct action and civil disobedience on behalf of animals. She is involved in several grassroots animal-advocacy groups, including BESA and the Communauté Droit Animalier Québec (DAQ). She is a regular media commentator, gives talks on issues related to animals, and organises the Estivales de la question animale au Québec, an annual gathering bringing together activists and academics.
Christiane recently edited a special issue of the journal Possibles (2024) on antispeciesism, which includes her own article, “From Human Supremacy to Animal Rights.” Her other publications include “Des animaux et des femmes : La thèse des oppressions liées selon les écoféministes antispécistes,” published in a special issue of Les ateliers de l’éthique / The Ethics Forum (2024), as well as the book La philosophie à l’abattoir. Réflexions sur le bacon, l’empathie et l’éthique animale, co-authored with Jean-François Labonté and published by Atelier 10 in 2018.
Personal website, where her full list of publications can be found.
christiane.bailey@concordia.ca
