ANIMALS AND WAR: Studies of Europe and North America

Animals and War is the first collection of essays to explore its important, yet neglected, topic. Scholars from sociology, history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies investigate the presence of animals in human wars.

Deadly Beautiful

Dr Liana Christensen, writer, naturalist and animal studies scholar based at the University of Western Australia, recently launched her book Deadly Beautiful: Vanishing Killers of the Animal Kingdom.  You can listen to an interview with Liana about the book at Radio New Zealand.

Launch of ground-breaking Journal of Animal Ethics

A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international debate about the moral status of animals. This month, the University of Illinois Press will publish the pioneering new Journal of Animal Ethics (JAE), the result of years of […]

Kids & Animals

From Professor Marc Bekoff: ‘It is with great pleasure that I write to you with a link to a new online book, Kids & Animals: Drawings From the Hands and Hearts of Children & Youth. This inspirational book is the result of a happy collaboration between me and the Children, Youth and Environments Center at the University […]

New Book from Carol Freeman

PAPER TIGER: A Visual History of the Thylacine by Carol Freeman. Brill Human-Animal Studies Series. September 2010. Images of animals generate perceptions that have a profound effect on attitudes toward species. But can representations contribute to their extinction? Paper Tiger considers the role of illustrations in the demise of the thylacine or Tasmanian ‘tiger’. It […]