Blog

This blog aims to provide a platform for the research we are undertaking and to offer our scholarly thoughts on all things animal studies including events, workshops, news stories, legal changes, films and documentaries.

Animal Rights: From the Margins to the Mainstream

26 June 2023
By Dominic O'Key

Bruno’s Days and Dreams: Edward Carpenter and the queerness of domestic dogs

23 December 2022
By Jonathan Green

Celebrating ShARC Success

15 June 2022

Ear-Tag Cinema: Notes on Andrea Arnold’s Cow

23 March 2022
By Dominic O’Key

Shall We Go and Kill Us Venison?

17 March 2022
By Emily Naish

Writing the Environmental Crisis at Sea: Tangibility and the Potential of the Jellyfish

3 March 2022
By Rosanne van der Voet

The best argument against veganism

16 December 2021
By Josh Milburn

Examining Animal Activism

29 November 2021
By Katharina Braun

The Meanings of Anti-vaccination in Edward Carpenter’s Anti-vivisection Writings

4 November 2021
By Mo O’Neill

“Two legs good, four legs bad” : Exposing speciesism and hypocrisy in the theoretical and practical conception of human rights

26 August 2021
By Charlotte Flores

Another Look at the Jellyfish

30 June 2021
By Rachel Murray

The Logic of Extinction: The Story of the Dutch Alcon Blue Butterfly

21 May 2021
By Rosanne van der Voet

Hate Speech and Animals

21 April 2021
By Josh Milburn

Knights on Wheels: Chivalry and Horsepower in the American Ambulance Corps

23 March 2021
By Daniel J Bowman

ShARC Reading Group: mid-year summary

2 March 2021
By Charlotte O’Neill

“We've Made Meat for Everyone!”

5 October 2021
By Samantha Hind

Counting Animals in War

7 September 2020
By Josh Milburn and Sara Van Goozen

The Dregs of Plastics: Doctor Who Season 12 and the Problem of its Environmentalist Message

6 July 2020
By Ming Panha

The Poultry Suicide Club

28 January 2020
By Daniel J Bowman

Beware the Category: Human

25 November 2020
By Robert McKay

Brilliant Animals: John C. Lilly, Ken Russell, and Cold War Behaviourism

25 October 2020
By Peter Sands

“The Fiendish Hound”: How The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) makes us rethink about our co-existence with nature

3 September 2019
By Ming Panha

Interrogating a settler feminist co-opting of the indigenous figure of coyote in Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s The Cure for Death by Lightning (1996)

6 August 2019
By Alice Higgs

Fictional Constructions of “the Field” in Mary Sanders Pollock’s Storytelling Apes: Primatology Narratives Past and Future (2015)

17 June 2019
By Joe Mansfield

Animal Remains (Sheffield, April 2019): A Report by Sarah Bezan

9 May 2019
By Sarah Bezan

The Selkie and the Fur Trade: Eliza Keary’s ‘Little Seal-skin’

15 April 2019
By John Miller

Muck Raking: Waste and Animality in Upton Sinclair

6 March 2019
By Daniel Bowman

Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice (OUP, 2018)

4 February 2019
By Alasdair Cochrane

Edward Carpenter: A Nonhuman Bibliography

7 January 2019
By Charlotte O’Neill

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson, Curzon Film World, 2015)

10 December 2018
By Bradley Savage

Nature’s Nickelodeons: A Multispecies Sensorium

11 June 2018
By Dr Sarah Bezan

What Difference Does it Make if Gove Recognises Animals as Sentient?

15 December 2017
By Elliott Woodhouse

Bearing Witness to a Disappearing World: Poetry in a Time of Mass Extinction

7 December 2017
By Dr Michael Malay

Gove promises that UK law will recognise animal sentience – but...

15 December 2017
By Elliott Woodhouse

Event Report: Utopian Protein, or Eating Well in the World to Come – a talk by Dr John Miller

13 November 2017
By Mira Lieberman

Film Review: Okja

1 November 2017
By Shelby Storey

Event report: Animal and Disability Liberation at iHuman’s Animal-Human-Machine

18 October 2017
By Dr Seán McCorry

Fully-funded PhD studentship in Theories of Loss in Cultural Representations of Extinction starting 2017-18

6 April 2017
By ShARC Blog team

CFP: Animals in Public: Care, Charisma and Knowledge – Science in Public 2017

6 April 2017
By ShARC Blog team

Tom Regan, 1938 – 2017

21 February 2017
By Adam Farrow

Conserving Conference Q&A: Helen Tiffin and Rosaleen Duffy

28 November 2016
By ShARC Blog team

Call for Submissions: Writing Meat: Flesh-Eating and Literature Since 1900

6 July 2016
By ShARC Blog team

Animal Advocacy and the Politics of (Un)happiness

30 June 2016
By Dr Seán McCorry

Melencolia’s Sheep

20 April 2016
By Dr John Miller

Arthur Miller’s Bees

29 March 2016
By Dr Robert McKay

Never Mind the Butterflies, Here’s the Snooker Players

15 February 2016
By Robert McKay

More-than-Human Life Well-Lived?

2 December 2015
By Robert McKay

#PigGate and the Politics of Necrobestiality

30 September 2015
By Seán McCorry