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 in 2022-23 will continue to be online via zoom. New and distant participants most welcome!
Winter 2023
- January 13: English, Jasmine, and Zacka, Bernardo. “The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds”, American Political Science Review, 2022, 116:3, 1025-1037.
Fall 2022
- December 9: Wrage, Birte. “Caring animals and care ethics.” Biology & Philosophy, 37:18 (2022).
- November 11: jones, pattrice. “Free as a bird: natural anarchism in action.” In Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An introductory anthology of anarchy in the academy, Routledge, 2009.
- September 30: Chapter 4 and 10 in Ingold, T. The Perception of the Environment, 2000.
Winter 2022
- January 21: Gillespie, Kathryn. “For multispecies autoethnography.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2021): 1-14.
- and Fischer, Bob and Milburn, Josh. “In Defence of Backyard Chickens.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 36, no. 1 (2019): 108–23.
- February 11: Celermajer, D., and O’Brien, A. “Alter-transitional justice; transforming unjust relations with the more-than-human”. In Posthuman Legalities. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
- and Charlotte Blattner. “Transitional Justice and Animal Law” (Forthcoming).
- March 11: Dande, Innocent and Swart, Sandra. “A City Gone to the Dogs? Power, Modernity and Canine Citizens in Post-Colonial Harare, c.1980–2017”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 2021, 47:4, 567-586.
- April 8: Fischer B, Palmer C, Kasperbauer TJ. “Hybrid theories, psychological plausibility, and the human/animal divide”. Philosophical Studies. 2021: 1-19.
- May 13: Rachel Nussbaum Wichert & Martha C. Nussbaum. “Can There Be Friendship Between Human Beings and Wild Animals?”, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2021, 22:1, 87-107.
Fall 2021
- September 17: Arcari, Paula; Probyn-Rapsey Fiona; and Singer Haley. “Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits.” Nature and Space, 2020: 1-26.
- October 8: Ahuja, Neel. “On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal In Meat!” In A Transnational Analysis edited by Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam, 213-240. New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2021.
- November 12: Stanescu, James. “Species Trouble: Judith Butler, Mourning, and the Precarious Lives of Animals.” Hypatia 27, no. 3 (2012): 567-582.
- December 3: Spannring, Reingard. “Mutual Becomings? In Search of an Ethical Pedagogic Space in Human-Horse Relations.” In Animals in Environmental Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Curriculum and Pedagogy. Edited by Teresa Lloro-Bidart and Valerie S. Banschbach, 117-138. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Winter 2021
- January 22: Behdadi, Dorna. “A Practice-Focused Case for Animal Moral Agency.” Journal of Applied Philosophy (2020): 1-18.
- February 5: Franks, Becca. “What do animals want.” Animal Welfare 28, (2019): 1-10.
- February 19: Govindrajan, Radhika. “Outsider Monkey, Insider Monkey: On the Politics of Exclusion and Belonging.” In Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- March 5: Narayanan, Yamini. “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, no. 3 (2017): 475-494.
- March 19: Ko, Aph. “Freeing the Animal from the Grasp of the Animal Rights Movement: Final Thoughts.” In Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out. New York: Lantern Books, 2019.
- April 2: Johansen, Kyle. Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering. New York: Routledge, 2020.
Fall 2020
- September 25: Corman, Laura. “He(a)rd: Animal cultures and anti-colonial politics” in Colonialism and Animality: Anti-Colonial Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies, eds. Taylor, Chloë and Struthers Montford, Kelly (New York: Routledge, 2020), 159-180.
- October 9: Gaard, Greta. “Towards a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies.” American Quarterly 2013 65, no. 3 (2013): 595-618.
- Oct 23: Painter, Corinne. “Non-human animals within contemporary capitalism: A Marxist account of non-human animal liberation.” Capital & Class 40, no. 2 (2016): 325-343.
- Nov 6: Celermajer, Danielle et al. “Justice Through a Multispecies Lens.” Contemporary Political Theory 19, no. 3 (September 2020): 475-512.
- Nov 20: Smith, Mick. “Environmental Anamnesis: Walter Benjamin and the Ethics of Extinction.” Environmental Ethics 23, no. 4 (2001): 359-376.
- Dec 4: Meijer, Eva. “From Animal Languages to Interspecies Worlds” in When Animals Speak. New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Winter 2020
- January 31: Calarco, Matthew, “The Three Ethologies”. In D. Ohrem & M. Calarco (Eds.), Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives, 45–62. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- February 14: Donovan, Josephine. “Feminism and the Treatment of Animals: From Care to Dialogue”, The University of Chicago Press 31, no. 2 (Winter 2006), 305-329.
- February 28: Adams, Carol. J. (1991). “Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals.” Hypatia, 6(1), 125-145.
- March 13: Kimmerer, Robin H. “The Honorable Harvest”. In Braiding sweetgrass. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
- March 27: Deckha, Maneesha. “Toward a Postcolonial, Posthumanist Feminist Theory: Centralizing Race and Culture in Feminist Work on Nonhuman Animals.” Hypatia 27, no. 3 (2012): 527–45.
Fall 2019
- September 20: Cooke, S. (2019). “Betraying Animals”. The Journal of Ethics, 23 (2), 183–200.
- October 4: Jon Gartoff (2019). “Animal Punishment”. Philosophical Papers.
- October 18: Barua, M. (2018). “Animal Work: Metabolic, Ecological, Affective”. Theorizing the contemporary.
- November 1: Giuseppe Lorini (2018). “Animal Norms: An Investigation of Normativity in the Non-Human Social World”. Law, Culture and the Humanities.
- November 15: Sarah Vincent et al. (2018). “Normative Practices of Other Animals”. Routledge Handbook of Moral Epistemology.
- November 29: Alice Crary (2018). “Cognitive Disability and Moral Status”. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability.
Winter 2019
What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? (2016) by Vinciane Despret.
Fall 2018
- Animals As Legal Beings: Creating A Postanthropocentric Legal Subjectivity (forthcoming) by Maneesha Deckha.
Winter 2018
Beasts of Burden. Animal and Disability Liberation (2017) by Sunaura Taylor.
Fall 2017
The Political Turn in Animal Ethics (2016), edited by Robert Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan.- Kymlicka, Will. “[Review] Robert Garner and Siobhan O’Sullivan (eds). The Political Turn in Animal Ethics. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.”, Animal Studies Journal, 6(1), 2017, 175-181.
Winter 2017
Philosophy and the Politics of Animal Liberation (2016), edited by Paola Cavalieri.
Fall 2016
Animals, Work, and the Promise of Interspecies Solidarity (2016) by Kendra Coulter.- Coulter, Kendra. “Beyond Human to Humane: A Multispecies Analysis of Care Work, Its Repression, and Its Potential.” Studies in Social Justice, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2016)