Add to ORKGInternational audienceResulting from a literature review carried out by three scholars in geography, interested in animals and spatial justice, this article questions the way justice is invoked by theoreticians, to conceive of animals in society. Rather than reproducing an exhaustive review, our aim is to identify different leads for research on social justice (is it being widened or transformed by taking animals into account?), on animals (are they subjected to or do they benefit from justice?), and on areas where humans and animals evolve (what animal ethics justify forms of apartheid or forms of communal living?). Due to the necessarily constrained size of an article, we will oversimplify the diversity of approaches, by highlighting two ...