2. Overview
Very brief introduction to Animal Studies
Why is it important
How to bring it into academia
How to keep it alive
3. Animal Studies
(Human-Animal Studies, Anthrozoology)
Relationships between humans and animals (real or symbolic)
Informed by natural science
Better understanding
Multidisciplinary approach
4. Nature (real physical identity) vs. Culture (human
categories)
How we classify them shapes how we see and treat them
(and vice versa)
Just world phenomenon, Blaming the victim
Social Construction of Animals
5. Parallel to Animal Protection/Rights
Movement
Similar to the development of Women's studies or
African-American studies
Feminism, Civil Rights
Moral philosophy:
Peter Singer: Animal Liberation (1975)
Tom Regan: The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
6. Critical Animal Studies
Not only description but also critical analysis
Goal: eliminate the domination and opression of animals and to
transform higher education into a more inclusive environment
for considering all species.
Advocating for the dismantling of the animal-industrial
complex, and for veganism.
7. Why is it important for AR movement
Education of the new generation of academics
Communication of these ideas on the different level
(influencing state institutions, other academics, politics etc.)
Media coverage of animal related topic (influencing public
opinion)
8. How to bring it into academia
and keep it alive
1. As a student or an academic write papers and thesis about
animal related topics
2. Join academic networks of Animal Studies
3. Organize a conference (student, national, itnernational)
4. Start a website/blog/fb page
5. Teach a course about Animal Studies and be a thesis supervisor
6. Publish – Animal Studies introduction articles, books, popular
articles in media etc…
9. Write student papers, thesis etc.
Use online Animal Studies bibliographies
For example: Animal Studies Bibliography
http://www.animalstudies.msu.edu/bibliography.php
Ask academics from abroad for help
Share your work with fellow students
10. Join academic networks of Animal
Studies
HAS Listserv (yahoo group)
http://www.animalsandsociety.org/human-animal-studies/has-listserv/
EACAS: European Association for Critical Animal Studies
Facebook group, website
http://eacas.eu
Human-Animal Studies (Facebook group)
Institute for Critical Animal Studies
Facebook group, website
www.criticalanimalstudies.org
11. List of organizations
European Association for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS)
http://www.eacas.eu
Minding Animals
https://mindinganimals.com
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS)
http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org
Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS)
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/cfhas/
Animals & Society Institute
http://www.animalsandsociety.org
ISAZ (International Society for Anthrozoology)
http://www.isaz.net
12. Organize a conference
(student, national, international)
Become a member of EACAS.eu
and organize the bi-annual konference of Critical Animal
Studies
13. Start a website/blog/fb page
in your language
Why:
networking
sharing ideas and sources
informing new students
Content
Brief introduction
Links to organizations, books and the other useful info
Student and adacemic papers
Info about upcoming conferences
14. Teach a course about Animal Studies
and be a thesis supervisor
Support of new students interested in this field
Spreading Animal Rights message among students
Discussions, projects, reading papers…
Establishing Animal Studies at your university
Use the pedagogic books of Margo de Mello
15. Books
Margo DeMello. Animals and
Society: An Introduction to
Human-Animal Studies
(whole lectures and sources)
Margo DeMello (Ed.).
Teaching the Animal:
Human-Animal Studies
across the Disciplines
(syllabi, critical essays and
other course materials)
16. Books
Nik Taylor and Richard Twine.
The Rise of Critical Animal
Studies: from the margins to
the centre
Anthony J. Nocella II et al.
(eds). Defining Critical
Animal Studies
17. Books
Aubrey Manning and James
Serpell (eds.) Animals and
Human Society: Changing
Perspectives
Adrian Franklin. Animals and
Modern Cultures:
A Sociology of Human-
Animal Relations in
Modernity
18. Publish
Animal Studies introduction articles and books in your language
Popular papers (news, personal blogs, animal rights website…)
Get ready for the media atention
International Journals and conferences