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The Social Construction of Narratives and Arguments in Animal Welfare Discourse and Debate
Contributor(s):: Muhammad, Mukhtar, Stokes, Jessica E., Morgans, Lisa, Manning, Louise
Stakeholders can hold conflicting values and viewpoints, on what animal welfare is and how a good life is achieved and can signal different problems, or problematize specific aspects of farm animal welfare, and propose different actions or interventions within food supply chains. The aim of the...
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Making kangaroos grievable; making grievability non-human
| Contributor(s):: Wijnandts, Y. K. C.
When Australian economist Ross Garnaut proposed to increase the commercial kangaroo industry in 2008, it started a national debate on the supposed edibility of kangaroos. Campaigns against the commercial kangaroo industry and hesitance amongst many consumers to eat kangaroo reflect concerns about...
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Portrayals of Animals in COVID-19 News Media
| Contributor(s):: Hooper, Jes, Aiello, Thomas, Hill, Kristine
With animals as the primary and intermediary vectors of COVID-19, we sought to understand the ways in which animals were represented in UK news media during the emergence of the global pandemic and how these portrayals impact the lives of humans and animals. Using the Lexis-Nexis online media...
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Assistive Technology Use among Older Adults with Vision Loss: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian Newspapers
| Contributor(s):: Fuchigami, Katharine, McGrath, Colleen, Bengall, Jordana, Kim, Stephanie, Debbie Laliberte, Rudman
Low vision assistive devices are often positioned as enabling continued social participation and engagement by older adults in everyday activities; however, previous research suggests that the use of such technologies is restricted by various environmental factors. With little attention...
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Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean
| Contributor(s):: Assali, Hadeel
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Improvising care: Managing experimental animals at a Japanese laboratory
| Contributor(s):: Suzuki, Wakana
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Trophy Hunters & Crazy Cat Ladies: exploring cats and conservation in North America and Southern Africa through intersectionality
| Contributor(s):: McCubbin, Sandra G., Van Patter, Lauren E.
What explains the silencing, dismissal, disavowal, ridicule, and stigmatizing of care for individual animals observed in conservation discourses? We examine this question using a comparative case study of feral cat management in North America and lion conservation in southern Africa. We apply...
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Life as a Reflexive Project: The Logics of Ethical Veganism and Meat-Eating
| Contributor(s):: Presser, L., Schally, J. L., Vossler, C.
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Animals "R" Us: Egomorphism in/for Science and Environmental Education
| Contributor(s):: Monteiro, R., Reis, G.
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Responding to the problem of ‘food security’ in animal cruelty policy debates: building alliances between animal-centred and human-centred work on food system issues
| Contributor(s):: Evans, Brodie, Johnson, Hope
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Odering the Feral Cat: Stakeholder Perspectives on Cat Overpopulation
| Contributor(s):: Kyle Hutson
This paper discusses the historical and cultural ways in which people attempt to order the domestic cat both spatially and conceptually, with special attention to how this ordering influences perceptions of feral cats. Feral cats are unowned or semi-owned and live entirely unconfined to a home,...
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Vegaphobia: derogatory discourses of veganism and the reproduction of speciesism in UK national newspapers
| Contributor(s):: Cole, Matthew
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The Obscurantist Turn in Anthropology: From Zoomania to Animalism in the West
| Contributor(s):: Digard, Jean-Pierre
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Confrontation and Support in Bonobo-Human Discourse
| Contributor(s):: Benson, James, Fries, Peter, Greaves, William, Iwamoto, Kazuyoshi, Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue, Taglialatela, Jared
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Interactions between Cats and Humans in a Natural Setting: Human Verbalizations and Feline Vocalizations
| Contributor(s):: Rubi, Serge
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To Go to the Dogs, or: Against Being Dead Serious
| Contributor(s):: Penzinger, Christine
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Constructing the Biotech Nonhuman Animal: Instrumentalism and Ambivalence
| Contributor(s):: Ung-Lanki, S.
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Bonding with commodities: Social constructions and implications of human-animal relationships in contemporary livestock production
| Contributor(s):: Candace C. Croney
Terminology used in the discourse of industrialized livestock production hassled some to characterize human–animal relationships within the animal industries as exploitive and oppressive; because the human–animal bond promotes concern for animal welfare, the apparent exclusion of that...
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Djurens skepnader: Narhet och distans i diskurs och livsvarld
| Contributor(s):: Falkengren, Jutta
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Degrees of Anthropocentrism in Accounts of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions
| Contributor(s):: Kuha, M.
