Alice Hovorka

Alice Hovorka was Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Queen’s University from 2014-2018. Her research broadly explores human-environment relationships and is theoretically informed by feminist, poststructuralist and posthumanist philosophical perspectives. Her work on the Lives of Animals, funded by SSHRC Insight Grants (2012-2016, 2016-2023). The Lives of Animals research group (now based at York University, Toronto Canada) focuses on animal-human relations and is grounded in the sub-discipline of Animal Geographies. Team members explore the complex encounters between animals and humans within broader political, economic, social, cultural, spatial, environmental, and ethical contexts. They embrace interdisciplinary and action-oriented research to inform scholarly and policy realms, and to enhance the lives of animals, and humans, as a result. Case studies of various companion, domestic, and wild animals around the world unearth the positionality of animals as influential actors, and theoretical and empirical insights into species relations of power.