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Animail: April 2017

Dear AASA Members,

Things are becoming decidedly Adelaideian around here:

We’re all really excited about the Adelaide conference coming up very soon and this edition contains news from our organizers…. Page 2 is a report from our Conference Organisers and page 4 features an update from Victor Krawczyk about the Arts events planned for alongside the conference.

The Executive Committee of AASA also had the difficult task of deciding the winners for our Travel Scholarships for the conference. We received over 2 dozen applications and after our rankings and deliberations, the committee decided on 4 clear winners.

CONGRATULATIONS to:

• Esther Alloun (Domestic PG): 'The promised land for vegans': identity, culture and place in the making of Israeli animal activism' • Sarah Bezan (International PG): Crace's 'The Devil's Larder' and the edibility of human, animal, and bodies' • Andrea Conner (Independent scholar): ‘Urban Ibis agency’ • Gonzalo Villanueva (Independent scholar): ‘Animals and Law - an Australian history’

Thank you to everyone who applied - the standard of submissions was very high.

This edition of Animail contains profiles of 3 AASA members – Zoei Sutton, Victor Krawczyk and Rowena Lennox.

A reminder about our Facebook page where you can keep up to date with activities in the field https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association- 480316142116752/ and also a reminder about our website with its up to date stream of information (thanks largely to the amazing Lynn Mowson: http://animalstudies.org.au/archives/category/news/call-for-papers.

Big thanks to Annie Potts for this month’s new book release section and to Rick De Vos for his member profiles.

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Exciting Times Ahead! AASA Conference 2017 - UPDATE

Draft program out soon! Keep watching the website http://aasa2017.com.au/

The AASA 2017 Conference in Adelaide is getting closer! We are very excited to be hosting this amazing event. Details of each day are being refined and are pleased to confirm:

Sunday 2nd July – Reception including Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture

The conference will kick off with the welcome reception Sunday afternoon

(4-5pm) when Professor Fiona Probyn-Rapsey will deliver the Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture: “The cultural politics of eradication”.

First Plenary Art Panel in Conference History

Monday will include, a first for an AASA conference, an art panel of international and Australian artists and academics discussing how animal and human life intersect in the arts. In addition there are concurrent sessions focussed on art with a special performance on the last day.

Monday 3rd July - Monday will have a focus on pets, domesticated animals, health and wellness, horses, and sport.

KEYNOTE James Serpell – leading expert on the human: animal intersection

Professor James Serpell from the University of Pennsylvania is our morning keynote speaker. Author of “In the Company of Animals: A Study of Human-Animal Relationships” and editor of two editions of “The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People” Professor Serpell is internationally known for his work regarding domestic animals.

Adelaide Premier of “Baxter and Me”. Meet the Director too!

On Monday evening a special screening of the film “Baxter

and Me” will be showing (ticketed).

Baxter and Me recounts Gillian Leahys relationship with her four-legged friends, whilst she lives through some of the most dramatic post-war changes to the social-political milieu of Australia. This politically inflected work draws viewers in to consider how love for our pets could act as a foundation to care and empathize with other non- human animals. The film won best documentary script at the prestigious 49th Australia Writers Guild Awards in Animail: April 2017 3

2016. The film will be followed by Q&A with the director, Associate Professor Gillian Leahy, University of Technology Sydney.

Janette Young – co-convenor for AASA2017.

High Art and Animal Life Intersect: Changes to AASA Art Events

This year there has been an unprecedented amount of high quality submissions for the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s art exhibition from the nation and around the world.

Victor Krawczyk and Caroline Adams, curators and event officers for the Adelaide conference, decided that it was essential for there to be two sites to exhibit the work. Details about the new gallery sites will be made available on the conference website very soon.

Several works will now be displayed at the Peanut Gallery, an intimate viewing space located in the historic Adelaide Arcade. Scotsman, Ronald Binne’s work called Pan Celebritas will be on display there, it is a collection of finely executed graphite portraits of famous 20th century chimpanzees.

Binne says that ‘the drawings play on ideas of celebrity culture and species difference as well as human cultural tropes around dystopian scenarios in popular culture of the usurping of traditional species hierarchy that positions the human at the top’.

Another artist to feature work at the Peanut is South Australian artist and writer, Stephanie Radok. Her work has increasingly become ‘concerned with the connection and recognition between animals and humans’ and this has been realised in her magnificent woodcuts of Australian Fauna, Once were neighbours (Series 1).

At Nexus Arts, there will be a commissioned performance and moving-image exhibition at the conference closing. A Dutch artist based in the UK, Demelza Kooij, has created a stunning short film that will feature in the moving-image exhibition and performance entitled, Wolves, A Bird’s Eye View. Using drone technology to capture unique shots of wolves, Kooij produces a short film that goes against the of traditional documentaries, where she says, ‘the tranquil silence draws the spectator in and allows the viewer to discover the wolf anew’. Animail: April 2017 4

This year’s art events are set to be the most ambitious ever executed for AASA, and surely shows that the Adelaide Conference Organizing Committee has heard the call to create public events that act as bridges between the conference proper and local community.

For details on the art events please contact Mr Victor J Krawczyk [email protected] and Dr Caroline Adams, and [email protected]

TOP LEFT: Ronald Binne, Pan Celebritas - Nim Chimpsky, graphite drawing on paper.

MIDDLE RIGHT: Stephanie Radok, Once were neighbours (Series 1), woodcut.

BOTTOM LEFT: Demelza Kooij, Film Still from Wolves, A Bird’s Eye View. Member Profiles

Compiled by Rick De Vos, Membership Secretary. Zoei Sutton

As I write this profile, a small furry paw pats at my arm, followed by a sigh and this face.

Most nights we go through the same ritual, beginning with the above ‘stop typing and play with me’ face, and usually ending with a subtle nudging of the offending laptop onto the floor. Suffice to say Mollini does not appreciate my work habits. The irony of avoiding her requests while I work on my thesis is not lost on me— my doctoral research examines the construction and navigation of human-companion animal relationships, particularly how and to what extent they allow for nonhuman animal agency.

I have gravitated towards animals and animal issues as long as I can remember. I grew up with many companion animals, in a family that took on any animal that needed a home— from kittens found in gutters to birds retrieved from busy roads, and many more along the way. I became vegetarian in my teenage years, volunteered at a local animal shelter and worked in a grooming salon, picking up dog walking and pet sitting on the side. I loved getting to know so many animals and much preferred Animail: April 2017 5 anything animal related to my other, human-centric jobs. I was also fascinated by the many different forms of human-companion animal relationships I was able to observe. Although most owners talk about their companion animals using similar language— part of the family, loved, spoiled— I was struck by how often our nonhuman clients suffered from what seemed to be an accepted amount of neglect. Untreated skin disorders, extreme matting, infrequent bathing and anxiety and behavioural issues were often laughed off or blamed on the animal. I was shocked by how often we saw clients like this in the grooming salon— these were not the rejected animals at the shelter, or animals being taken away from their living situation. These were the apparently ‘loved’ ‘members of the family’ who would often be sent home only to be returned in a similar state in future. This is perhaps when I started to think more critically about our relationships with companion animals.

I arrived at university with the intention of attaining a Law/Arts double degree in order to become a legal advocate for nonhuman animals. However I quickly found that it was Sociology that offered me more opportunities to think critically and systematically about our relationships with animals. In my third year I took an Animal Sociology course which exposed me to a whole new field of literature— one in which animals were central, explicitly discussed, rather than having to be worked into whatever theory or essay I was engaged in at the time. I became vegan and found it curious that in many community vegan groups, companion animal relationships were often not subject to the same blanket condemnation applied to all other forms of animal use. Since then I have endeavoured to seek out and conduct research that critically engages with these relationships. My Honours thesis explored the disposability of companion animals, and my PhD research (conducted under the supervision of A/Prof Nik Taylor and Dr Heather Fraser) seeks to build upon this by considering the lived experience of human-companion animal relationships. I am particularly interested in how our view of human-companion animal relationships might change when we include companion animals more meaningfully in research. As such, in-home observation has been an important aspect of my methodology— allowing me to observe and include companion animal interactions to the greatest extent possible, rather than relying solely on human testimonies in interviews.

In addition to my doctoral research, I am co-convenor (along with Yamini Narayanan and Nick Pendergrast) of The Australian Sociological Association’s Sociology and Animals Thematic Group, and a Review Editor for the online social science resource H-Net’s H-Animal channel. I am also a member of the AASA and the Animals in Society Working Group. Members can keep up with my latest work by following me on academia.edu and twitter. This year I am looking forward to finishing my doctoral thesis and presenting at the AASA, Sociology and Animals, and TASA conferences.

When I’m not studying, I spend my time with three fabulous canines: Mollini, Lorelei, and Tommy, and partner Nathan. Our favourite activities include gardening, toy hunts and accidental fetch (a little known variation of fetch whereby Animail: April 2017 6 fetchable objects are strategically placed where they are likely to be nudged ... usually a precursor to traditional fetch and/or muddy laundry), though I suspect there are many more enriching games occurring in ‘dogworld’, down the far end of the garden, out of human eyesight. Rowena Lennox

There were lots of animals where I grew up in Cronulla, a beach suburb on the southern outskirts of Sydney. There were the ‘pet’ tortoises who always managed to escape from the concrete laundry tub out the back where we put them. There was Blinky, a blue budgie, who flew around the house and left his droppings on my sister Jane’s pictures of Jesus. There was an echidna who I was so excited to see scurrying across our driveway. There were two horses, Patch and Rena, grazing in the vacant block across the road and there were dogs.

Right: Alex doesn’t look like he’s enjoying this photo much!

The dogs were the ones I knew the best. Some of them, like my mother’s legendary dog Sandy, died before I met them. My family had cattle dogs – Flash, Patch, Tiger, Beau and Possum, who gave birth to the first pups of her two litters in my bedroom. There was my brother Roderick’s cattle dog Alex, my sister Gina’s German Shepherd Ali and my brother Bruce’s Newfoundland Sorrow.

Eventually there was my dog Zefa.

Left: Zefa as a pup with me

I enjoy my time with Zefa so much I wanted to write about her perceptions, and how she is both autonomous and cooperative. When in 2012 the animal advocacy charity Voiceless offered a prize for writing about factory farmed animals or an Australian native animal, my essay about Zefa expanded to include some of her ancestors, who are dingoes.

I was shocked to learn how dingoes are persecuted across Australia and I wanted to know why people kill this other species with such vehemence. Humans have strong, often polarised, feelings and opinions about these intelligent, adaptable, sociable animals. In 2014 I Animail: April 2017 7 started a doctorate of creative arts at University of Technology Sydney to write a book-length creative non-fiction manuscript about emotional relationships between people and dingoes.

My first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor: the life of Martinho da Costa Lopes (Pluto/Zed, 2000), was about an East Timorese leader who died in exile in Portugal before international attention helped East Timor gain its independence from Indonesian occupation. I was interested in the perceptions, thoughts and feelings of a sick elderly priest dying a long way from home. But Dom Martinho’s life was inextricably bound up with politics.

I cannot separate dingoes from politics, either. Joining animal studies reading groups and attending animal studies conferences has enabled me to think about dingoes from so many different angles. My undergraduate degree is in English literature, although I did study philosophy, history, art and religious studies as an undergraduate. I find the interdisciplinarity of animal studies challenging, fascinating and necessary. Sometimes I think the practice of creative writing is not well understood within the academy. It can feel like dancing backwards in high heels in a dress. But universities have given my writing much support and have enabled me to be more productive than I might have been without constructive feedback and some structure. I completed a draft of my first book while studying for a masters in creative writing. Being part of a doctoral program has enriched my process of writing about dingoes tremendously. My supervisor Debra Adelaide has encouraged me to take risks and make something new out of my research, and, thanks to the generosity of animal studies scholars, I’ve been able to participate in a field that feels vital and alive. At the moment I’m thinking of my creative work as series of interlinked personal essays with the working title Dingoes and People: a personal, partial, eclectic and emotional history. The essays pivot on my meeting with a young dingo on K’gari (Fraser Island) who was later killed by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. A recent essay, ‘Coolooloi’

(http://www.aawp.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Lennox_AAWP_2016_Coolooloi.pdf ), describes my meeting with this dingo in the context of an interview with dingo researcher Jennifer Parkhurst. A forthcoming essay in Griffith Review 57 discusses this dingo in the light of a tour I did of K’gari, Bob Dylan songs, and how government/national parks authorities and private tour guides present dingoes to the public. At Animal Intersections, the AASA conference in Adelaide in July 2017, I’ll be presenting a paper about the colonial history of K’gari and the nearby Coloola coast and how historical violence resonates in current management of dingoes on the island.

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Victor J. Krawczyk

Curator and Events Officer for the 7th AASA Conference, Adelaide.

PhD Candidate (Human-Animal Studies and Critical Management Studies), School of Communication International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia.

For much of my life, I have had a concern with social justice. I think this must have developed throughout my post Vatican II Catholic schooling, with its firm commitment to the principle. My schooling was not one of where educators harped on about ‘fire and brimstone’ but one where we were encouraged to engage in charity and to consider others less fortunate than ourselves.

I shan’t also forget that a care for animals was first distilled in me through Franciscan educators during my primary schooling. I can recall school assemblies where the priests, usually of Maltese extraction, in calm voices and beautifully strong accents, who would share their own childhood stories of caring for animals in their rural communities.

As I child, I was enjoying a peaceful suburban life in the Antipodes. I enjoyed books about animals, observing them in nature and believed it was important to protect their habitat. I was fortunate to live near the River Torrens, the section that went into the sea, and this is where people can keep their horses alongside the river, so I could see many wild water fowl and companion animals living in close proximity. I enjoyed observing them as they went about their lives. However, as I grew older my interest in animals waned as I become busy with other things, yet I continued to appreciate and respect the animals that I found in nature, which was gloriously abundant when one lives in Australia.

My concern for social justice for human beings remained strong but became more nuanced whilst I was studying for my undergraduate social science degree in what was then The School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of South Australia. I was also undertaking additional subjects in sociology and cultural studies within The School of Communication at the same university and that facilitated the development of my critical thinking skills. Studying in such an environment made me acutely aware of the widespread inequalities of our world, the need to pursue social justice inspired projects and to think critically but also practically.

Undertaking my doctoral studies needed thus to be committed to social justice, have an applied element but be critical as well. I was surprised to have the opportunity to become more concerned with as a friend just mentioned this area and then I became intrigued. So when the opportunity came to do a PhD in the field of human-animal studies, I made the bold decision to do so, even though I was no means familiar with it. Yet, I strongly believe education can have a Animail: April 2017 9 transformative impact on oneself. Education, especially an education grounded in the humanities and social sciences, expands one’s horizons and leaves them changed for the better.

I also think it is important for the humanities and social science disciplines to speak and influence other disciplines, especially in the areas of business and management. Through the years, I have come to realise how the humanities and social sciences can be employed to create a ‘triple bottom line’ in business contexts. My PhD thesis then marries into my on-going interest in critical management studies with the social sciences and humanities, in particular, cultural studies. In a broad sense, my thesis investigates how we can be more compassionate towards animals in business contexts, given that there are numerous businesses where animals may not always experience a good life. This research has allowed me to meet amazing entrepreneurs across the world, who are seriously considering how, in the words of , we can create The Humane Economy. With my research, I intend to develop management frameworks to help businesses consider how best to respect animals. For more information about my research and other research outputs please see my university homepage: http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/students/homepage.asp?Name=Victor.Krawczyk

I have also had a passion for art ever since I was a child. I was fascinated with my mother’s collections of art books such Herbert Read’s A Concise History of Modern Painting. I would spend hours looking thorough the books and contemplating the art images. In fact, I longed to study art history formally but needed to complete my undergraduate degree first as this was a requirement of entry into the art history programme at The University of Adelaide. Years later, I find myself pursuing curatorial projects, amongst my academic and business related projects, so now my pleasure in art has crystallised in its analysis and presentation for other people.

This year, it has been an honour to help create an ambitious art program that is set to make the AASA conference in Adelaide truly memorable for our guests. We have 25 artists participating across two different sites, have special art panels within the conference proper and will create an edited book that not only contains chapters from presenters on the art panels but also documents the exhibition.

We also have other events that are unique experiences for our guests coming to Adelaide. For example, we have arranged the first known vegan wine tour of the famous Barossa Valley. Do see the website for more details: http://aasa2017.com.au/events/ and please note that tickets for these events will be out soon.

To conclude, my studies and the projects I am involved today in would not have been possible without the on-going support of the University of South Australia and my brilliant supervisors, who I have found incredibly nurturing and thoughtful. My supervisory panel includes: Dr Gilbert Caluya (UniSA and University of Melbourne), A/Professor M. Anne Hamilton-Bruce (The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and University of Adelaide) and Dr Freya Higgins-Desbiolles (UniSA). I am so grateful to have them in my life!

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Recent Publications

Jennifer McDonell, 2017. Bull’s-eye, Agency, and the Species Divide in Oliver Twist: a Cur’s-Eye View. In L.W. Mazzeno and R.D. Morrison (eds.), Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture, Palgrave Studies in Studies in Animals and Literature, 2017. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60219-0_6. http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137602183

Hanne E. F. Nielsen, 2016. Hoofprints in Antarctica: Byrd, media, and the golden Guernseys. The Polar Journal 6 (2): 342 - 357. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2154896X.2016.1253825

Susan Pyke, 2017. Cathy’s Whip and Heathcliff’s Snarl: Control, Violence, Care, and Rights in Wuthering Heights. In L.W. Mazzeno and R.D. Morrison (eds.), Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture, Palgrave Studies in Studies in Animals and Literature, 2017. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60219- 0_6. http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137602183

Alexandra McEwan, PhD - The Concept of Violence; A Proposed Framework for the Study of Animal Protection Law and Policy (2016) is available at Australian National University library via Open access. https://openresearch- repository.anu.edu.au/browse?type=author&value=McEwan%2C+Alexandra+Broughton

The latest issue of the journal (Vol 6, No 1) is out now. Links are below.

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/

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The Unnaturalness Objection to De-Extinction: A Critical Evaluation: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/4/

Douglas Campbell

On the Authenticity of De-extinct Organisms, and the Genesis Argument: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/5/

Rosie Ibbotson

Making Sense? Visual Cultures of De-extinction and the Anthropocentric Archive: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/6/

Marcus Baynes-Rock and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

We Are Not Equals: Socio-Cognitive Dimensions of Lion/Human Relationships: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/7/

Madeleine Boyd

Painting with Horses towards Interspecies Response-ability: Non-human Charisma as Material Affect: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/8/

Malcolm Caulfield

The Australian Animal Use Industry Rejects Anthropomorphism, but Relies on Questionable Science to Block Improvements: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/9/

Will Kymlicka

Review: and Siobhan O’Sullivan (eds). The Political Turn in . London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/10/

Nigel Rothfels

Review: Peta Tait. Fighting Nature: Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows. Sydney University Press, 2016: http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol6/iss1/11/

Conference Notices and Call for Papers

ICAS Oceania 2017 Conference 15 & 16 July, Melbourne Australia The theme this year is “Forging Alliances and Intersections”. We are looking for papers, workshops and presentations that address this issue, particularly in the Oceanic region. Please see our Call for Papers for more details

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http://www.symploke.org

Blue Humanities (Vol. 26, No. 2 [2019]) Although the ocean covers seventy percent of the planet and provides more than half of the oxygen vital to all life on earth it figures comparatively little in global cultural production. We tend to treat the ocean as that which must be traversed rather than explored for itself — we lay beside it at the beach, we cruise on its surface, or more usually fly several thousand feet above it, but we don’t enter it (except for brief dives), and we certainly don’t dwell in it. Yet the ocean going, particularly of cargo from China to the US, underpins globalization, so much so it has been described as the ”missing context” of postmodernity And from an environmental point of view, the ocean is a repository for plastic pollution, waste and effluence and is rapidly dying as global temperatures rise. There is a certain kind of politics of invisibility at work here — we do not comprehend complex eco-systems of oceans or the interdependence of the seas, earth and atmosphere. Much less, do we acknowledge the effects of the depletion, erasure and expulsion of biological life from much of the world’s oceans. The ocean is, as Allan Sekula acknowledged, the ”forgotten space” — in which the twin fissures of oceanic degradation and social injustice are colliding. The Anthropocene of the ocean is characterized by a particular kind of violence characterized by the melting of the Arctic ocean, the mass bleaching of coral, industrial extractions of aquatic life and the warming of the seas. The cascading effects of these factors and their impact upon the Earth’s life support system have yet to be understood — but the appearance of dead zones in numerous areas of the world’s oceans are a shocking sign of its literal death. There is a growing body of work known as the ”blue humanities” which is historicizing the ocean and making it part of contemporary consciousness in a way — one hopes —that will help environmental activism’s bid to ”save” the ocean. Yet, what defines the ”blue humanities”? How does it leverage transdisciplinary inquiry and why do we need the blue humanities now? (Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2018.)

Manuscripts must be received by August 1, 2018. See below for submission requirements and instructions.

Call for Papers: Vegan Geographies: Ethics Beyond Violence

The Vegan Geographies Collective, comprising the following editors: v Paul Hodge (The University of Newcastle) [email protected] v Andrew McGregor (Macquarie University) [email protected] v Yamini Narayan (Deakin University) [email protected] v Simon Springer (University of Victoria) [email protected] v Ophélie Véron (Université Catholique de Louvain) [email protected] v Richard J. White (Sheffield Hallam University) [email protected] ; are seeking contributions to a proposed edited book entitled Vegan Geographies: Ethics Beyond Violence. Our intention is to publish the book with an established University Press.

Timeline: Abstracts are due by June 1st, 2017. Please email your abstracts to all of the above listed editors. Selection of papers will occur quickly and we will endeavour to inform authors of inclusion by July 1st, 2017. Completed chapters are due by December 31st 2017.

Length: 250 to 300 word abstracts. Chapter length is expected to be between 8,000 and 10,000 words. Animail: April 2017 13

Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalising the study of . Scholars who examine this theory and action are usually situated in sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies or . The centrality and contested nature of place in the actions and discourse of activists however suggest an inherently spatial praxis. are deliberately closed and placed out of the sight; our familiar urban environment is filled with references to eating meat and exploiting animals, although normalised and rendered invisible. On the other hand, activists take to the street to defend animal rights and invite individuals to change their perception on everyday places and practices of animal violence. and veganism therefore embody an inherently spatial praxis – the desire to live without places of violence (White, 2015). As underlined by Harper (2010:5-6), ‘veganism is not just about the abstinence of animal consumption; it is about the ongoing struggle to produce socio-spatial epistemologies of consumption that lead to cultural and spatial change’. While an interest in domination over non-human animals has gained momentum within critical geography circles in the last two decades (Wolch and Emel, 1995; Philo and Wilbert, 2000; Emel et al., 2002, Gillespie and Collards, 2015; White, 2015), the scarcity of available literature highlights the need for geographers to further reflect on vegan activism and practice. As scholars-activists identifying with veganism, we seek to underscore what geographers can contribute to our understanding of critical veganism and vegan praxis.

We therefore would like to invite contributions addressing themes including but not limited to:

• Veganism and critical animal geographies • Vegan, post-colonial and feminist geographies • and imagined geographies • Total liberation and emancipatory politics • Veganism as a spatial praxis • Veganism and positionality • Vegan movements and activism • Vegan cultures and subcultures • Indigenous and • Intersectionality • Anthroprivilege and anthroparchy • Veganism and anarchist geographies • Veganism and the animal industrial complex • Veganism and critical pedagogies • Veganism and environmentalism • Vegan futures

Call for Papers: Working with Animals

6 and 7 October 2017 at the University of Southampton

With confirmed plenary speakers

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v Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde) v Garry Marvin (Roehampton University)

The British Animal Studies Network seeks papers for its next meeting, to be held at the University of Southampton on the theme of ‘Working with Animals’. Please submit your title with an abstract of no more than 200 words and a brief biography (also of no more than 200 words) to Emma Roe on [email protected] . These should be included within your email – i.e. not as attachments.

The deadline for abstracts is 14 July 2017. Presentations will be 20 minutes long, and we hope to include work by individuals at different career stages. Sadly we have no money to support travel, accommodation or attendance costs. Topics covered at this meeting might include (but are not limited to):

• Animals as co-workers / collaborators • Agricultural animals as de-skilled in industrial farming • The representation of working animals in human art and culture • Animal training and animal labour • Labour laws and animal workers • Working with dead animals or parts of dead animals as meat, research tissues, etc. • Animal care work. • Killing animals in the work place.

We would welcome papers that deal with such issues in contemporary and historical settings, and would especially like to see papers that address these issues from contexts outside the UK, including the Global South. Papers are welcomed from across animal studies, including disciplines such as (but not limited to) geography, anthropology, sociology, literary studies, art history, history, science and technology studies, , psychology, behavioural sciences and ecology.

New Book Releases (listed in alphabetical order by ‘author’)

Please send information about new books in Animal Studies to [email protected]

New Book Releases (and some books ‘in press’) April 2017 (in alphabetical order by author/editor; all book descriptions taken from publishers’ websites)

Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. By Keridiana W. Chez (published by Ohio State University Press, 2017).

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Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture is the first monograph located at the intersection of animal and affect studies to examine how gender is produced via the regulation of interspecies relationships. Looking specifically at the development of the human-dog relationship, Chez argues that the bourgeoisie fostered connections with canine companions in order to mediate and regulate gender dynamics in the family. As Chez shows, the aim of these new practices was not to use animals as surrogates to fill emotional vacancies but rather to incorporate them as "emotional prostheses." Chez traces the evolution of the human-dog relationship as it developed parallel to an increasingly imperialist national discourse. The dog began as the affective mediator of the family, then addressed the emotional needs of its individual members, and finally evolved into both "man's best friend" and worst enemy. By the last decades of the nineteenth century, the porous human-animal boundary served to produce the "humane" man: a liberal subject enabled to engage in aggressive imperial projects. Reading the work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Margaret Marshall Saunders, Bram Stoker, and Jack London, Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men charts the mobilization of affect through transatlantic narratives, demonstrating the deep interconnections between animals, affect, and gender.

Keridiana W. Chez is Assistant Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY.

Webpage: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814213346.html

The Animals' Agenda: Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age. By and Jessica Pierce (published by Beacon Press, 2017).

Every day we are learning new and surprising facts about just how intelligent and emotional animals are-did you know rats like to play and laugh, and also display empathy, and the ears and noses of cows tell us how they're feeling? At times, we humans translate that knowledge into compassion for other animals; think of the public outcry against the fates of Cecil the lion or the captive gorilla Harambe. But on the whole, our growing understanding of what animals feel is not resulting in more respectful treatment of them. Renowned animal-behavior expert Marc Bekoff and leading bioethicist Jessica Pierce explore the real-world experiences of five categories of animals, beginning with those who suffer the greatest deprivations of freedoms and choice-chickens, pigs, and cows in industrial food systems-as well as animals used in testing and research, including mice, rats, cats, dogs, and chimpanzees. Next, Bekoff and Pierce consider animals for whom losses of freedoms are more ambiguous and controversial, namely, individuals held in zoos and aquaria and those kept as companions. Finally, they reveal the unexpected ways in which the freedoms of animals in the wild are constrained by human activities and argue for a more compassionate approach to conservation. In each case, scientific studies combine with stories of individual animals to Animail: April 2017 16 bring readers face-to-face with the wonder of our fellow beings, as well as the suffering they endure and the major paradigm shift that is needed to truly ensure their well-being. The Animals' Agenda will educate and inspire people to rethink how we affect other animals, and how we can evolve toward more peaceful and less violent ways of interacting with our animal kin in an increasingly human-dominated world.

Webpage: http://www.beacon.org/The-Animals-Agenda-P1250.aspx

How Animals Help Students Learn: Research and Practice for Educators and Mental-Health Professionals. Edited by N. R. Gee, A.H. Fine and P. McCardle (published by Routledge, 2017).

How Animals Help Students Learn summarizes what we know about the impact of animals in education and synthesizes the thinking of prominent leaders in research and practice. It's a much-needed resource for mental-health and education professionals interested in incorporating animals in school-based environments, one that evaluates the efficacy of existing programs and helps move the field toward evidence-based practice. Experts from around the world provide concrete examples of how animals have been successfully incorporated into classroom settings to achieve the highest level of benefit while also ensuring the health and welfare of the students and animals involved.

Nancy R. Gee, PhD, is research manager for the Waltham research program in human- animal interaction. She is also a professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Fredonia. Aubrey H. Fine, EdD, is professor of education in the College of Education and Integrative Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a licensed psychologist with more than 40 years of experience in animal assisted interventions. Peggy McCardle, PhD, MPH, is president of Peggy McCardle Consulting, LLC, and an affiliated research scientist at Haskins Laboratories. Webpage: https://www.routledge.com/How-Animals-Help-Students-Learn-Research-and- Practice-for-Educators-and/Gee-Fine-McCardle/p/book/9781138648630

Taming the Wild Horse: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. By Louis Komjathy (published by Columbia University Press, 2017).

In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this annotated translation and study, Louis Komjathy argues that this virtually Animail: April 2017 17 unknown text offers unique insights into the transformative effects of Daoist contemplative practice. Taming the Wild Horse examines Gao's illustrated poems in terms of monasticism and contemplative practice, as well as the multivalent meaning of the "horse" in traditional Chinese culture and the consequences for both human and nonhuman animals.

The Horse Taming Pictures consist of twelve poems, ten of which are equine-centered. They develop the metaphor of a "wild" or "untamed" horse to represent ordinary consciousness, which must be reined in and harnessed through sustained self-cultivation, especially meditation. The compositions describe stages on the Daoist contemplative path. Komjathy provides opportunities for reflection on contemplative practice in general and Daoist meditation in particular, which may lead to a transpersonal way of perceiving and being.

Louis Komjathy is an associate professor of Chinese religions and comparative religious studies at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism (2007), The Way of Complete Perfection: A Quanzhen Daoist Anthology (2013), The Daoist Tradition: An Introduction (2013), and Daoism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2014), and the editor of Contemplative Literature: A Comparative Sourcebook on Meditation and Contemplative Prayer (2015).

Webpage: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/taming-the-wild-horse/9780231181

Becoming Centaur: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship. By Monica Mattfeld (published by Penn State University, 2017)

In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society. Men of the period used horses to transform themselves, via the image of the centaur, into something other—something powerful, awe-inspiring, and mythical. Focusing on the manuals, memoirs, satires, images, and ephemera produced by some of the period’s most influential equestrians, Mattfeld examines how the concepts and practices of horse husbandry evolved in relation to social, cultural, and political life. She looks closely at the role of horses in the world of Thomas Hobbes and William Cavendish; the changes in human social behavior and horse handling ushered in by elite riding houses such as Angelo’s Academy and Mr. Carter’s; and the public perception of equestrian endeavors, from performances at places such as Astley’s Amphitheatre to the satire of Henry William Bunbury. Throughout, Mattfeld shows how horses aided the performance of idealized masculinity among communities of riders, in turn influencing how men were perceived in regard to status, reputation, and gender. Drawing on human-animal studies, gender studies, and historical studies, Becoming Centaur offers a new account of masculinity that reaches beyond anthropocentrism to consider the role of animals in shaping man. Animail: April 2017 18

“Monica Mattfeld explores eighteenth-century English masculinity and gentlemanly honor from a scintillating new perspective—the horse’s back. Richly archival and theoretically alert, this splendid book illuminates the equestrian worlds of William Cavendish, London riding houses, the field, Philip Astley’s celebrity circuses, and Henry Bunbury’s savage satires, revealing a hidden history of horses as secret sharers and historical agents in Englishmen’s self-imagining. A must for historians as well as animal studies scholars.”— Donna Landry, author of Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture Monica Mattfeld is Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Northern British Columbia and coeditor of Cosmopolitan Animals. Webpage: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07577-8.html

Animals and Humans: Sensibility and Representation, 1650- 1820. Edited by Katherine M. Quinsey (published by Oxford University Press, 2017).

European culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a radical redefinition of ‘humanity’ and its place in the environment, together with a new understanding of animals and their relation to humans. In examining the dynamics of animal-human relations as embodied in the literature, art, farming practices, natural history, religion and philosophy of this period, leading experts explore the roots of much current thinking on interspecies morality and animal welfare. The animal-human relationship challenged not only disciplinary boundaries – between poetry and science, art and , natural history and fiction – but also the basic assumptions of human intellectual and cultural activity, expression, and self-perception. This is specifically apparent in the re-evaluation of sentiment and sensibility, which constitutes a major theme of this chronologically organised volume. Authors engage with contemporary reactions to the commodification of animals during the period of British imperialism, tracing how eighteenth-century ecological consciousness and notions of animal identity and welfare emerged from earlier, traditional models of the cosmos, and reassessing late eighteenth- century poetic representations of the sentimental encounter with the animal other. They show how human experience was no longer viewed as an iterative process but as one continually shaped by the other. In concluding chapters authors highlight the political resonances of the animal-human relationship as it was used both to represent and to redress the injustices between humans as well as between humans and animals. Through a multifaceted study of eighteenth-century European culture, authors reveal how the animal presence – both real and imagined – forces a different reading not only of texts but also of society.

Contents: Katherine M. Quinsey, Introduction Ann A. Huse, Edmund Waller’s whales: marine mammals and animal heroism in the early Animail: April 2017 19

Atlantic Lucinda Cole, Guns, ivory and elephant graveyards: the biopolitics of elephants’ teeth Anita Guerrini, Animals and natural history in eighteenth-century France Denys Van Renen, ‘A hollow Moan’: the contours of the non-human world in James Thomson’s The Seasons James P. Carson, The great chain of being as an ecological idea Kathryn Ready, John Aikin, Joseph Addison and two eighteenth-century Eastern tales of remembered metempsychosis Katherine M. Quinsey, ‘Little Lives in Air’: animal and sensibility in Pope Rachel Swinkin, ‘No, helpless thing’: interspecies intimacy in the poetry of Burns and Barbauld Sarah R. Cohen, Thomas Gainsborough’s sensible animals Anne Milne, Animal actors: literary pedigrees and bloodlines in eighteenth-century animal breeding Irene Fizer, ‘An egg dropped on the sand’: the natural history of female bastardy from Mark Catesby to Wollstonecraft Barbara K. Seeber, Animals and the country-house tradition in Mary Leapor’s ‘Crumble Hall’ and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

Editor’s Bio: Katherine M. Quinsey is a Professor of English at the University of Windsor, Canada. She has published extensively on Pope, Dryden, Restoration drama, and on Canadian poet Margaret Avison. Her current areas of research focus on Pope’s religious imagination, and his engagement in animal welfare.

Webpage: http://xserve.volt.ox.ac.uk/VFcatalogue/details.php?recid=6671

In press (for publication 2017):

What’s the Matter with Meat? By Katy Keiffer (published by Reaktion, 2017) What’s the Matter with Meat? draws back the curtain that obscures the true costs of industrialized meat production. The book exposes how the industry is expanding worldwide at a rapid pace, with just a few large companies monopolizing the majority of the market. This global survey of factory-produced meat examines the practices of the industry in five major production centres: the USA, Europe, Brazil, Australia and Asia.

The system generates enormous corporate profits while providing very low prices to consumers, but has an outsized and often negative impact on surrounding communities. Katy Keiffer focuses on issues such as labour, genetics, animal welfare and environmental degradation, as well as probing less-reported topics such as ‘land grabs’, where predator companies acquire property in foreign nations for meat production, frequently at the expense of local agriculture.

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The current industry model is simply not feasible for the future, as our planet will soon run out of the resources required to raise animals on such a scale. A salutary, hard-hitting critique of the meat-producing industry and its harmful effects, this book exhorts consumers to resist the lure of cheap meat and encourages governments to foster alternative methods, and the industry itself to amend its practices. This book is not about telling people to stop eating meat. Rather, by exposing current industry practices we can all be aware of the perils of supporting the system; instead of urging people to avoid meat, it proposes that we demand and pay for better meat. Katy Keiffer, a former food service professional, produces and hosts What Doesn’t Kill You, a long-running weekly radio podcast on the Heritage Radio Network that focuses on the intersections of people, policy and the food system. Webpage: http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781780237602

Cats in Art. By Desmond Morris (forthcoming Oct 2017, Reaktion) The cat—that most graceful, stubborn, and agile of animals—has long been a favorite subject of artists the world over from prehistory to the modern day. A spectacular 7,000-year-old engraving in Libya depicts a catfight. Figures modelled by the Babylonians remind us of their belief that the souls of priests were escorted to paradise by a helpful cat. Pablo Picasso was known to have loved cats and famously portrayed them as savage predators. In Victorian times, cats were depicted in loving family groups with mothers caring for their playful kittens. Today, the cat is one of the most popular domestic pets on the planet, and feline art is a hugely popular theme across the world.

In his latest eye-catching book, bestselling author Desmond Morris tells the compelling story of cats in art. He explores feline art in its many forms, tracing its history from ancient rock paintings and spectacular Egyptian art to the work of old masters, avant-garde representations, and the depiction of cats in cartoons. Morris discusses the various ways in which artists have approached the subject throughout history, weaving illuminating stories with rarely seen images. The result is a beautifully illustrated book that will delight anyone with a Kitty, Max, or Tigger in their life. Webpage: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo27428593.html

Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Ingrid H. Tague (in press, Penn State University Press) Animal Companions explores how eighteenth-century British society perceived pets and the ways in which conversation about them reflected and shaped broader cultural debates. While Europeans kept pets long before the eighteenth century, many believed that doing so was at best frivolous and at worst downright dangerous. Ingrid Animail: April 2017 21

Tague argues that for Britons of the eighteenth century, pets offered a unique way to articulate what it meant to be human and what society ought to look like. With the dawn of the Enlightenment and the end of the Malthusian cycle of dearth and famine that marked previous eras, England became the wealthiest nation in Europe, with a new understanding of religion, science, and non-European cultures and unprecedented access to consumer goods of all kinds. These transformations generated excitement and anxiety that were reflected in debates over the rights and wrongs of human-animal relationships. Drawing on a broad array of sources, including natural histories, periodicals, visual and material culture, and the testimony of pet owners themselves, Animal Companions shows how pets became both increasingly visible indicators of spreading prosperity and catalysts for debates about the morality of the radically different society emerging in eighteenth-century Britain.

Ingrid H. Tague is Associate Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of History at the University of Denver. “Ingrid Tague’s Animal Companions helps us understand the extraordinary innovation entailed in the rise of pet keeping in eighteenth-century England. Tague shows how, rather suddenly, the widespread acceptance of relationships of intimacy between human and nonhuman animals shaped political, social, and intellectual views and debates. The rise of pet keeping brought abstract Enlightenment questions into the realm of concrete debate— around the nature of the human, the concepts of ownership and slavery, relationships of affection and alterity, and the exercise of humanitarianism and the ideal of harmony. Tague’s book gives us new insights into the role of human-animal relationships in defining key questions about the human.”—Laura Brown, Cornell University Webpage: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06588-5.html

Recent Human-Animal Studies’ publications in German and French:

Human-Animal Studies: Eine Einführung für Studierende und Lehrende. By Gabriela Kompatscher, Reingard Spannring and Karin Schachinger. Philosophie; Kultur/ Musik/ Theater; Human-Animal Studies: Gesellschaftliche, philosophische und kulturelle Aspekte des Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses

Die erste deutschsprachige Einführung in die Human- Animal Studies (HAS) fungiert für Studierende und Lehrende der HAS und für Nachbardisziplinen, die auf das Mensch-Tier-Verhältnis blicken, als Seminargrundlage. Die Kapitel sind didaktisch aufbereitet und bieten Definitionen, Erklärungen, ein Glossar, Zusatzliteratur, Arbeitsaufgaben, Verständnisfragen und weiterführende Fragen, die zur vertieften Auseinandersetzung anregen. Webpage: http://www.utb-shop.de/human-animal- studies-9444.html

RÉVOLUTIONS ANIMALES: Animail: April 2017 22 comment LES ANIMAUX SONT DEVENUS INTELLIGENTS Edited by KARINE LOU MATIGNON PRÉFACE DE JANE GOODALL "Hier, jugée anecdotique, la sollicitude pour les animaux induite par la connaissance, est désormais une question sociétale et s’impose progressivement sur la scène économique et politique mondiale. Elle augure d’autres manières de vivre ensemble." Un livre d’actualité, rigoureux et accessible, qui porte un nouveau regard sur le monde des animaux. Basé sur les avancées des connaissances scientifiques sur les compétences des animaux et l’histoire des relations hommes/animaux, ce livre est le premier ouvrage complet en France dédié à ces questions. Une première partie réunit les connaissances actuelles sur les compétences des animaux à la lumière des découvertes les plus récentes. Dans une seconde partie, c’est l’histoire des relations entre les hommes et les animaux, des origines jusqu’à nos sociétés modernes, en passant par les différentes époques et cultures, qui est abordée, ainsi que la question très actuelle, mais aussi d’avenir, du bien-être et des droits des animaux. Pour la première fois, la recherche et la pensée sont traitées sur un pied d’égalité avec les sujets d’actualité. Karine Lou Matignon, écrivain et journaliste, spécialisée sur le thème de la relation Homme/animal depuis plus de 20 ans. Parmi ses ouvrages : La plus belle histoire des hommes et des animaux, avec Boris Cyrulnik, Seuil, 2000 - La fabuleuse aventure des hommes et des animaux, avec Boris Cyrulnik, Le Chêne, 2001 - Les animaux aussi ont des droits, avec Boris Cyrulnik, Elisabeth de Fontenay, , Seuil (2012) - A l’écoute du monde sauvage, Albin Michel, 2012 - Enfants et animaux, des liens en partage, La Martinière, 2012 - Emotions Animales, Chêne, 2005 - L’impasse alimentaire, avec Nicolas Hulot et le Comité de veille de la FNH, Fayard, 2004 - Sans les animaux le monde ne serait pas humain, Albin Michel, 2000. AUTEURS CONTRIBUTEURS Olivier Adam • Michel André • Françoise Armengaud • Janick Auberger • Thierry Aubin • Aurore Avarguès-Weber • Eric Baratay • Marc Bekoff • Gregory Berns • Denis- Richard Blackbourn • Gilles Boeuf • Luigi Boitani • Jean-Yves Bory • Elodie Briefer • Donald M. Broom • Florence Burgat • François Busquet • Vinton Cerf • Valérie Chansigaud • Georges Chapouthier • Maria-Mélanie Chauveau • David Chauvet • Yves Christen • Philippe Cury • Boris Cyrulnik • Fabienne Delfour • Vinciane Despret • Ludovic Dickel • Dominique Droz • Muriel Falaise • Elisabeth de Fontenay • Valéry Giroux • Martin Giurfa • • Jane Goodall • Emmanuelle Grundmann • Thomas Hartung • Bernd Heinrich • Philippe Hubert • Christelle Jozet- Alves • Melvin Josse • Pierre Jouventin • Jean-Pierre Kieffer • Barbara J. King • Catherine et Raphaël Larrère • • • Dominique Lestel • Philip Limbery • François-Bernard Mâche • Baptiste Morizot • Mehdi Mzabi • Eric Navet • Shelby Elaine McDonald • Jean-Marc Neumann • Fabrice Nicolino • Jessica Pearce • Guo Peng • Irene M. Pepperberg • Annie Potts • Estiva Reus • • Patrice Rouget • Pat Shipman • Peter Singer • Céline Sissler-Bienvenu • Lynne U. Sneddon • • Thom Van Dooren • Dirk-Jan Verdonk • Denis Vialou • Frans de Waal • Steven Wise Webpage: http://www.revolutionsanimales-lelivre.com/ PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND ANY INFO RE NEW BOOK RELEASES TO [email protected]