Reading Group

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 2017

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