Paulina Siemieniec is coordinator of the Animal Studies Reading Group and the Animal Studies Work-in-Progress Group. She also distributes a monthly newsletter of APPLE events. If you would like to join either group, or be added to the email list, please write to Paulina at 13ps75@queensu.ca. Note that most meetings will continue to be online via zoom. New and distant participants are most welcome!
Fall 2023
- November 15: Faria, Catia., (2023). “Relationality.” In Animal Ethics in the Wild, Cambridge University Press, 126-143.
- October 11: Basl, John and Schouten, Gina., (2018). “Can We Use Social Policy to Enhance Compliance with Moral Obligations to Animals?” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21: 629-647.
- September 13: Kurki, Visa., (2023). “Expanding Agency and Borders of Competence.” In Villa-Rosas, Gonzalo and Spaak, Torben. (eds). Legal Power and Legal Competence: Meaning, Normativity, Officials, and Theories. Law and Philosophy Library, 140: 47-67.
Summer 2023
- June 14: Papadopoulos, Dennis., (2022) “Indigenizing wild animal sovereignty.” Journal of Social Philosophy.
- May 17: Daria-Cojocaru, Mara, and Alasdair Cochrane., (2022). “Solidarity with Wild Animals.” Environmental Ethics, 44(1): 63-78.
Winter 2023
- March 17: Deckha, Maneesha., (2022). “Juvenile Smokescreens: Softening the Harm of Zoos, Aquaria, and Prisons through (Human) Children.” In Gruen, Lori and Marceau, Justin. (eds). Carceral Logics, Cambridge University Press, 238-260.
- February 10: Dave, Naisargi N., (2022). “Love and Other Injustices: On Humans, Animals, and an Ethics of Indifference.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , 42(3): 656-667.
- January 13: English, Jasmine, and Zacka, Bernardo., (2022). “The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds”, American Political Science Review, 116 (3): 1025-1037.
Fall 2022
- December 9: Wrage, Birte., (2022). “Caring animals and care ethics.” Biology & Philosophy, 37(18).
- November 11: jones, pattrice., (2009). “Free as a bird: natural anarchism in action.” In Amster, Randall; DeLeon, Abraham; et al., (eds). Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy, Routledge, 2009.
- September 30: Ingold, Tim., (2000). “From Trust to Domination: An Alternative History of Human-Animal Relations” (Chapter 4) and “Building, Dwelling, Living: How Animals and People make themselves at home in the World.” In The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Routledge.
Summer 2022
- May 13: Nussbaum Wichert, Rachel and Nussbaum, Martha., (2021). “Can There Be Friendship Between Human Beings and Wild Animals?”, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 22(1): 87-107.
Winter 2022
- April 8: Fischer, Bon; Palmer, Clare; and Kasperbauer TJ., (2021). “Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide”. Philosophical Studies.
- March 11: Dande, Innocent and Swart, Sandra., (2021). “A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 47(4): 567-586.
- February 11: Celermajer, D., and O’Brien, A. (2021). “Alter-transitional justice; transforming unjust relations with the more-than-human”. In Posthuman Legalities. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- and Charlotte Blattner. “Transitional Justice and Animal Law” (Forthcoming).
- January 21: Gillespie, Kathryn. (2021). “For multispecies autoethnography.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1-14.
- and Fischer, Bob and Milburn, Josh., (2019). “In Defence of Backyard Chickens.” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(1): 108–23.
Fall 2021
- December 3: Spannring, Reingard., (2019). “Mutual Becomings? In Search of an Ethical Pedagogic Space in Human-Horse Relations.” In Teresa Lloro-Bidart, Teresa and Valerie S. Banschbach. (eds). Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy, Palgrave Macmillan, 79-94.
- November 12: Stanescu, James., (2012). “Species Trouble: Judith Butler, Mourning, and the Precarious Lives of Animals.” Hypatia, 27(3): 567-582.
- October 8: Ahuja, Neel., (2021). “On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal In Meat!” In Chatterjee, Sushmita and Subramaniam, Banu. (eds). A Transnational Analysis, Duke University Press, 213-240.
- September 17: Arcari, Paula; Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona; and Singer, Haley., (2020). “Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits.” Nature and Space, 1-26.
Winter 2021
- April 2: Johansen, Kyle., (2020). Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering, Routledge.
- March 19: Ko, Aph., (2019). “Freeing the Animal from the Grasp of the Animal Rights Movement: Final Thoughts.” In Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out, Lantern Books.
- March 5: Narayanan, Yamini., (2016). “Street dogs at the intersection of colonialism and informality: ‘Subaltern animism’ as a posthuman critique of Indian cities.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(3): 475-494.
- February 19: Govindrajan, Radhika., (2018). “Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging.” In Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. University of Chicago Press.
- February 5: Franks, Becca., (2019) “What do animals want.” Animal Welfare 28: 1-10.
- January 22: Behdadi, Dorna., (2020) “A Practice-Focused Case for Animal Moral Agency.” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1-18.
Fall 2020
- December 4: Meijer, Eva., (2020). “From Animal Languages to Interspecies Worlds.” In When Animals Speak. New York University Press.
- November 20: Smith, Mick., (2001). “Environmental Anamnesis: Walter Benjamin and the Ethics of Extinction.” Environmental Ethics, 23(4): 359-376.
- November 6: Celermajer, Danielle et al., (2020). “Justice Through a Multispecies Lens.” Contemporary Political Theory, 19(3): 475-512.
- October 23: Painter, Corinne., (2016). “Non-human animals within contemporary capitalism: A Marxist account of non-human animal liberation.” Capital & Class, 40(2): 325-343.
- October 9: Gaard, Greta., (2013). “Towards a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies.” American Quarterly, 65(3): 595-618.
- September 25: Corman, Laura., (2020). “He(a)rd: Animal cultures and anti-colonial politics.” In Taylor, Chloë and Struthers Montford, Kelly. (eds). Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies, Routledge, 159-180.
Winter 2020
- March 27: Deckha, Maneesha., (2012). “Toward a Postcolonial, Posthumanist Feminist Theory: Centralizing Race and Culture in Feminist Work on Nonhuman Animals.” Hypatia, 27(3): 527–45.
- March 13: Kimmerer, Robin H., (2013). “The Honorable Harvest”. In Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions.
- February 28: Adams, Carol. J., (1991). “Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals.” Hypatia, 6(1):125-145.
- February 14: Donovan, Josephine., (2006). “Feminism and the Treatment of Animals: From Care to Dialogue.” Signs; Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 31(2):305-329.
- January 31: Calarco, Matthew., (2018). “The Three Ethologies”. In Ohrem, Dominik, and Calarco, Matthew. (eds.). Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan, 45-62.
Fall 2019
- November 29: Crary, Alice., (2018). “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status”. In Cureton, Adam and Wasserman, David.T. (eds). Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Oxford University Press, 45-466.
- November 15: Vincent, Sarah., Ring, Rebecca and Andrews, Kristen., (2018). “Normative Practices of Other Animals”. In Zimmerman, Aaron., Jones, Karen and Timmons, Mark. (eds). Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology. Routledge, 57-83.
- November 1: Lorini, Giuseppe., (2018). “Animal Norms: An Investigation of Normativity in the Non-Human Social World”. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 18(3).
- October 18: Barua, Maan., (2018). “Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective”. Theorizing the contemporary, Editor’s Forum.
- October 4: Gartoff, Jon., (2019). “Animal Punishment”. Philosophical Papers, 49(1):69-105.
- September 20: Cooke, Steve., (2019). “Betraying Animals”. The Journal of Ethics, 23(2):183–200.
Winter 2019
- Despret, Vinciane., (2016). What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?.University of Minnesota Press
Fall 2018
- Deckha, Maneesha., (forthcoming). Animals As Legal Beings: Creating A Postanthropocentric Legal Subjectivity.
Winter 2018
- Taylor, Sunaura., (2017). Beasts of Burden. Animal and Disability Liberation. The New Press.
Fall 2017
- O’Sullivan, Siobhan and Garner, Robert., (eds). (2016). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics
- Kymlicka, Will., (2017). “[Review] Robert Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan (eds). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics. Rowman and Littlefield”, Animal Studies Journal, 6(1): 175-181.
Winter 2017
- Cavalieri, Paola., (ed). (2016). Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation
Fall 2016
- Coulter, Kendra (2016). Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Coulter, Kendra., (2016). “Beyond Human to Humane: A Multispecies Analysis of Care Work, Its Repression, and Its Potential.” Studies in Social Justice, 10(2).