Activities

Publications

Investigating Human/Animal Relations in Science, Culture and Work, edited by Tora Holmberg (2009).

How can we make sense of the ambiguous and historically shifting characteristics of human/animal relations? How can these relations be analysed in terms of power and hierarchies intersecting with gender, race, class and nationality?  This collection of essays, derived from a Nordic workshop on the matter, contributes to the growing interdisciplinary field of human/animal studies (HAS). The book contains 17 articles, divided into three sections: Thinking with Animals, Animal-Human Culture and Scientific Animals. All the papers included are work in progress – from ongoing or planned projects – in the shape of short contributions. This volume thus constitutes a “smörgåsbord” of lively and vivid research in the area of human/animal relations that goes on throughout the Nordic countries.

The book can be ordered by sending an e-mail to the following address: publications@gender.uu.se

Book project
Undisciplined Animals: A Displaced Epistemology, edited by Pär Segerdahl (forthcoming).

The HumAnimal Group, formed at the Centre for Gender Research in 2008, is producing their first joint book. It will consist of nine chapters, written by members of the group, where each chapter exemplifies how animal studies challenge basic perspectives in the disciplines where these studies emerge: education research, philosophy, geography, social psychology, sociology, gender research and visual culture studies, etc. The book will be published during 2010.

Meat Animal Meat Conference Report

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