Advocacy Update – Alex Vince – Animal Liberation
In this Advocacy Update, Dinesh Wadiwel speaks with Alex Vince, Campaign Manager for Animal Liberation Dinesh: I am curious about your background. How long have you been at Animal Liberation, and what led you to doing this work? Alex: I have been with Animal Liberation in the role of campaign director for 4 years. Prior […]
Member Spotlight – Michelle Szydlowski
Dinesh Wadiwel speaks with AASA member, Michelle Szydlowski about her latest publicationCongratulations on Elephant Tourism in Nepal. Szydlowski, Michelle (2024) Elephant Tourism in Nepal Historical Perspectives, Current Health and Welfare Challenges, and Future Directions, Oxfordshire: CABI. What scholarly disciplines are most relevant to this publication?Thank you, this book was truly a labor of love […]
Member Spotlight – Josephine Brown and Zoei Sutton
Ondine Sherman talks to AASA members Josephine Brown and Zoei Sutton about their latest publication Browne, Josephine and Sutton, Zoei (eds) Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal (London: Routledge, 2025) What drew you to animal studies? Josephine Brown (JB): I grew up in a family […]
Member Spotlight – Rachel Yerbury
Ondine Sherman talks to AASA member, Rachel Yerbury about her latest publication. Yerbury, R. M. Zoos and aquaria: Dark Tourism or Light fun? (2023) A post-humanist perspective. Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, 2, 1191656. What scholarly disciplines are most relevant to this publication? This perspective paper draws on tourism studies, as well as the psychology of human […]
Member Spotlight – Jane Kotzmann
Ondine Sherman talks to AASA member, Jane Kotzmann about her latest publication. Kotzmann, Jane (2023) ‘Sentience and Intrinsic Worth as a Pluralist Foundation for Fundamental Animal Rights’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 43(2), 405–428, https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqad003 What scholarly disciplines are most relevant to this publication? The most relevant discipline in relation to this publication is […]
Member Spotlight – Brenda De Groot
Ondine Sherman talks to AASA member, Brenda De Groot about her scholarship and art. What originally drew you to the field of Animal Studies? My animal-centred worldview, which has been my mode of being for my entire life. I see Animal Studies now (it is still developing, so it might settle otherwise) as a collection […]
Member Spotlight – Fernando Do Campo
In this Advocacy Update, Dinesh Wadiwel speaks with Jed Goodfellow, Co-Founder and Director, Policy and Government Relations, Australian Alliance for Animals How did you start birdwatching and how did birds become your primary focus? What did birdwatching reveal to you about humanity and the weight of colonial history? I started birdwatching in 2011 on lunawuni/Bruny […]
Advocacy Update – Jed Goodfellow, Australian Alliance for Animals
In this Advocacy Update, Dinesh Wadiwel speaks with Jed Goodfellow, Co-Founder and Director, Policy and Government Relations, Australian Alliance for Animals Dinesh: I am curious about your background. Prior to your work with Australian Alliance for Animals, you were at the RSPCA. You also have PhD in Law and have a history of teaching animal […]
Member Spotlight – Boria Sax
Ondine Sherman talks to AASA member, Boria Sax, author of numerous books on human-animal relations and lecturer and a teacher at Mercy College, USA. What originally drew you to the field of Animal Studies? I was deeply involved in Animal Studies before there was a name for it. This began when I came across accounts […]
Member Spotlight – Jes Hooper
Ondine Sherman talks to AASA member, Jes Hooper about her latest book. What scholarly disciplines are most relevant to this publication? Emerging Voices for Animals in Tourism is a multidisciplinary initiative that seeks to highlighting the lives of animals in tourism across the globe. Disciplines represented in the volume include tourism and animal studies, anthropology, […]