CFP: Vegan Geographies: Ethics beyond violence
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 de Louvain) ophelie.ei.veron@gmail.com * Richard J. White (Sheffield Hallam University) richard.white@shu.ac.uk are seeking contributions to […]
Member Publications
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 Elliot’s Bird of Paradise’ in Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations, eds. Deborah […]
Book Launch – Sydney ‘Extinctions Studies’
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 & Cultural Research, University of Canberra, at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney, on […]
New issue Animal Studies Journal now available online
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 Tomb and Neo-Eurasianism: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/3/ Carolyn Mason – The Unnaturalness Objection to De-Extinction: A Critical Evaluation: […]
CFP: Antennae Special Issue ‘Post-Truth Age’
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 in the very notion of truth. While apocalyptic visions of the Anthropocene appear closer than […]
CFP: Animal Sanctuaries
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 are treated and understood in larger contexts. How do animal sanctuaries contribute to the broader […]
Call for Papers – Gender, work, organisation and non-human animals
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 problematic particularly as recent empirical research has shown the significance of other creatures to the […]
CFP: Tracking the Human-Wildlife-Conservation Nexus Across the HAS Landscape
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 have coalesced into a more coherent interdisciplinary field known today as “human-animal studies” – or […]
Call for Papers – Animal Studies Journal
The Animal Studies Journal has just released a general call for papers – see pdf asj-call-for-papers-2016
CFP: Animal Sanctuaries – Animal Studies Journal
Call for Papers: Special Edition of the Animal Studies Journal ‘Animal Sanctuaries’ Guest Editor: Elan Abrell We seek articles that consider animal sanctuaries as unique sites of human-animal interaction that both influence and are influenced by the way animals are treated and understood in larger contexts. How do animal sanctuaries contribute to the broader animal […]