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Critical animal studies (CAS) applies critical theory [1] to animal studies and animal ethics. It emerged in 2001 with the founding of the Centre for Animal Liberation Affairs by Anthony J. Nocella II and Steven Best , which in 2007 became the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS).
Richard Twine (born 1974) is a British sociologist whose research addresses environmental sociology as well as gender, human/animal and science studies. [1] He is noted for his "foundational" work in critical animal studies. [2]
Critical animal studies (CAS) applies critical theory [100] to animal studies and animal ethics. It emerged in 2001 with the founding of the Centre for Animal Liberation Affairs by Anthony J. Nocella II and Steven Best , which in 2007 became the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS).
Critical approaches in animal studies have also considered representations of non-human animals in popular culture, including species diversity in animated films. [17] By highlighting these issues, animal studies strives to re-examine traditional ethical , political , and epistemological categories in the context of a renewed attention to and ...
Best is co-founder of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS), formerly known as the Center on Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA). His academic interests are continental philosophy, postmodernism, and environmental philosophy. He is known for his post-structuralist notions of revolution, based equally in animal rights and total liberation.
Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel is an Australian social and political theorist who is presently an associate professor in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney. His work addresses critical animal studies, the rights of disabled people, and theoretical perspectives on violence. [1] [2]
The disclosure that dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, has put virologists and researchers on high alert. Among other things ...
Castricano returned to the University of British Columbia (at the new Okanagan Campus) in 2005 as an associate professor in the English and Cultural Studies, going on to publish three collections on critical animal studies. [1] Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World, from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, was published in 2008 ...