Member publication: Yamini Narayanan
Narayanan, Y. (2021). ‘Animating Caste: Visceral Geographies of Pigs, Caste And Violent Nationalisms in Chennai City.’ Urban Geography. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2021.1890954?journalCode=rurb20 What scholarly disciplinesRead More
Member publication: Muhammad Kavesh
Kavesh, M. A. (2021). ‘Sensuous entanglements: a critique of cockfighting conceived as a “cultural text.”’ The Senses and Society. 16.2:152-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2020.1858653 WhatRead More
Member blog: Roslyn Appleby
I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, but was lucky to inherit a passionate attachment to rural ‘nature’ through family holidays.Read More
Member publication: Clare Archer-Lean
Archer-Lean, C. (2021). Animal Representative Presence: Problems and Potential in Recent Australian Fiction. In J. Gildersleeve (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature (pp.Read More
Member blog: Mona Quilty
My practice is based in learning through sculpture and performance. I believe the way to understanding my shared paths with other animalsRead More
Animal Language and Prairie Dogs – Con Slobodchikoff
An increasing amount of evidence shows that a number of animals have language or language-like properties. I summarize this information with aRead More
Extinction is Personal – Lori Marino
In 2018 I had a deeply personal experience with a member of a whale community that brought home to me what extinctionRead More
Becoming Animal
Teya Brooks Pribac and Debra L. Merskin How do we become who we are? How do we get to be the wayRead More
A New Decade of Minding Animals – Teya Brooks Pribac in Conversation with Dr Rod Bennison
This year Minding Animals International Inc. (MAI) celebrates its 11th birthday. It’s been a busy decade for MAI and the numerous associatedRead More
Call for Blog Contributions: AASA/Minding Animals
In support of the next Minding Animals Conference, entitled Animals and Climate Emergency Conference (MAC5, Sydney, July 2021), and to encourage discussionRead More
ARiS Reading Group, February 2020
by Greg Murrie Animal Rights in Sydney (ARiS) began in August 2016 with an inaugural meeting at the Town Hall Hotel, Newtown.Read More
Re-presenting animals: In conversation with Debra Merskin
Debra Merskin is professor of media studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, US. Her researchRead More
Inside the Grass Library
Inside the Grass Library David Brooks with Christine Townend, Blue Mountains Writers Festival, August 2019 David Brooks’s new book, The Grass LibraryRead More
Nonhuman animal legal personhood – Sakshi Aravind
“The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas, are specifically addressed to man.” – John Berger, About LookingRead More
Intertwinements: Writing about birds; writing about the planet by Dr Joshua Lobb
My novel is about many things. I’ve called it “a novel in twelve stories” for a reason. To give you the simplestRead More
Report on the Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group in May 2019
Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group, 27 May 2019 In May, the Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group read Marti Kheel’s analysis of theRead More
All Things Fishy – In Conversation with Dr Jonathan Balcombe
Zhuangzi and Huizi were strolling along the bridge over the Hao River. Zhuangzi said, “The minnows swim about so freely, following theRead More
Report on the Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group in April 2019
Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group, 29 April 2019 The Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group recently engaged with Carol Adams’ work with theRead More
In Conversation: with Nik Taylor. Companion Animals and Domestic Violence: Rescuing You, Rescuing Me
Prepared by Teya Brooks PribacImages: Mawson Lake Photography Club Nik Taylor is Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury, NZ. She isRead More
Book Review
Yunker, John (ed). 2018. Writing for Animals: New Perspectives for Writers and Instructors to Educate and Inspire. Ashland, Oregon: Ashland Creek Press.Read More
Report on the Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group in March 2019
The Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group continued our exploration of early animal studies scholarship, curated by lynn mowson, with Lori Gruen’s workRead More
Report on the Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group in February 2019
The Melbourne Knowing Animals Reading Group is spending 2019 with foundational thinking that focuses on multispecies justice. We began the year withRead More
Dr Alex Lockwood on public vigils for nonhuman animals
Alex Lockwood is a writer, activist and public speaker. Please visit his website for more info and updates: http://alexlockwood.co.uk/ ‘It’s a busy oneRead More
Varda Mehrotra on Personhood: The Principle and the Practice
PERSONHOOD: THE PRINCIPLE AND THE PRACTICE Varda Mehrotra, Executive Director of Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) CONCEPT OF PERSONHOOD OFRead More
Varda Mehrotra on India’s Animal Protection Movement
From 1990 to 2007 I (Christine Townend) was living in India, as managing trustee of an animal protection organisation in Jaipur, andRead More
Jane Johnson – Dissenting Animals
Dissenting Animals Oscar, my Cairn terrier, is a remarkable creature in lots of ways, including that he loves going to the vet.Read More
Peter Singer – The Cow Who…
MELBOURNE – Last month, a steer escaped from a slaughterhouse in the New York City borough of Queens. Video of the animalRead More
Peter Singer – Are Insects Conscious?
MELBOURNE – Last summer, a cabbage white butterfly laid its eggs on an arugula I was growing. Before long, the plant wasRead More
Five Propositions on Ferals Fiona Probyn-Rapsey.
Five Propositions on Ferals Fiona Probyn-Rapsey. First published in Feral Feminisms,Issue 6, Fall 2016, http://www.feralfeminisms.com In September 2015, I gave a talk at Siteworks,Read More
Fiona Probyn-Rapsey on Australia’s war on feral cats
Last week in Canberra I attended the Threatened Species Commission Community roundtable on the ‘feral cats’ strategy – the plan to eradicateRead More