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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Critical Animal Studies"”.
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A Dis-Ability Perspective on the Stigmatization of Dissent: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Criminology, and Critical Animal Studies
… dissertation in six chapters is grounded in critical research and theory for the purpose of engaged public service. This project is grounded in three formal disciplines: education, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. Within those three disciplines, this project interweaves newly …
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Animals without Borders: Farmed Animal Resistance in New York
While billions of farmed animals are immobilized within agribusiness, every year some of these animals manage to break free. This thesis examines the stories of those who flee slaughterhouses and the public response to these individuals. My objective is to understand how animals resist and the role …
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"Everyone Loves Marineland!" (?): Entertainment Animal Advocacy, Praxis, and Resisting Corporate Repression
Following allegations and graphic evidence of animal cruelty and neglect documented by ex-employee whistleblowers of Marineland Canada to the Toronto Star newspaper in late 2012, the ethics surrounding animal captivity have been increasingly contested in regional public discourse. Animal advocates …
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Effective Altruism on Animal Activism — A Site of Ableism and Neoliberal Co-optation of Neurodivergence
… including, according to effective altruists, animal welfare (Singer, 2015). Criticisms of EA have also emerged, particularly from progressive activists, academics, and journalists, who frequently express skepticism or dismiss EA entirely as guiding praxis for the pursuit of animal liberation …
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Facing The Animal : Physiognomy and Pathognomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
This thesis examines representations of animal and human faces during the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries to investigate how animal faces inform, challenge, and extend representations and theories of animality, and of the human face. Two texts that greatly influenced theories of …
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“Is This How I Express That Love?”: How Graduates of Zoological Education Experience Learning About Animals
The exploitation of animals in the Canadian economy results in widespread violence against animals and against marginalized people worldwide. This exploitation is normalized and reinforced by a strong influence of the Canadian economy on higher educational institutions that teach students to …
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Pollinator People: an ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON
… can negotiate agency and autonomy with the animals whose lives they are managing to some degree. These experiences and knowledges can help create multispecies urban commons in which non-human animals, even insects, are integrated and considered within processes of radical democracy.
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Cast Out Urbanites: The Historical Problematization of Cows in Kingston
Animals are regularly defined and managed as problems in urban policies and practices. Despite being common, the problematization of animals is ill-understood and under-theorized in urban geography. In this dissertation, I argue that problematization is important because it has significant …
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Using Animals: the use of non-human animals from the material to the metaphorical, 1100-1380
This thesis applies Animal Studies theory to a selection of texts from medieval literature and visual culture. In particular, it is concerned with the ways that the ‘fact of interaction’ impacts on an evaluation of non–human animal (NHA) and human–animal relationships. The thesis re–examines a …