Category Archives: Books & Journals

CFP – Edited Collection – Equine Breeds (Abstracts: October 15, 2017)

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

In 1565 Thomas Blundeville mused that since ‘it is naturally given to every beast for the moste parte to engender hys lyke, as well as conditions as in shape of body, it is very requisite therefore for him that would … Continue reading →

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CFP: Vegan Geographies: Ethics beyond violence

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

The Vegan Geographies Collective, comprising the following editors: * Paul Hodge (The University of Newcastle) Paul.Hodge@newcastle.edu.au * Andrew McGregor (Macquarie University) andrew.mcgregor@mq.edu.au * Yamini Narayan (Deakin University) y.narayanan@deakin.edu.au * Simon Springer (University of Victoria) springer@uvic.ca * Ophélie Véron (Université Catholique … Continue reading →

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Member Publications

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

New Publications by our members: Esther Alloun, 2017. ‘Fur PETA’s Sake! The politics of animals in the Zionist State’, Animal Liberation Currents (23 May 2017). Available at https://www.animalliberationcurrents.com/fur-petassake/ Rick De Vos, 2017. ‘Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of … Continue reading →

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Book Launch – Sydney ‘Extinctions Studies’

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

Thom van Dooren has co-edited, with Deborah Bird Rose and Matthew Chrulew, a new book entitled Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (Columbia University Press). 2017 The book will be launched by Ross Gibson, Centenary Professor in Creative … Continue reading →

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New issue Animal Studies Journal now available online

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

Volume 6 issue 1 is now available online Editorial, Contents and Contributor bios:  http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/1/ Provocations from the Field:  Rick De Vos Extinction, Encountering and the Exigencies of Forgetting:  http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/2/ Henrietta Mondry – Selecting Candidates for De-extinction and Resurrection: Mammoths, Lenin’s … Continue reading →

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CFP: Antennae Special Issue ‘Post-Truth Age’

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

ANTENNAE: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture is seeking submissions for a special issue titled,  ‘Post-truth Age.’  As more literally than ever, all that is solid melts into the air, there never has been quite as much at stake … Continue reading →

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CFP: Animal Sanctuaries

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

The editors of a special edition of the Animal Studies Journal on animal sanctuaries, edited by Elan Abrell, seek articles that consider animal sanctuaries as unique sites of human-animal interaction that both influence and are influenced by the way animals … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Gender, work, organisation and non-human animals

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Lynn Mowson

Organizational studies have traditionally focused solely on humans within organizations, neglecting and marginalizing other species as objects, food, symbols and resources. While such humanist hegemony is understandable from a pragmatic perspective, the absence of other species from organizational studies is … Continue reading →

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CFP: Tracking the Human-Wildlife-Conservation Nexus Across the HAS Landscape

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Lynn Mowson

CFP:  Tracking the Human-Wildlife-Conservation Nexus Across the HAS Landscape (Special issue of Society and Animals planned for 2017) Since the inaugural issue of Society and Animals in 1993, disparate academic examinations about animals in the social sciences and the humanities … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Animal Studies Journal

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Lynn Mowson

The Animal Studies Journal has just released a general call for papers – see pdf asj-call-for-papers-2016

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