CSA - Animals in Society Research Cluster

Will you be at the 2021 Canadian Violence Link Conference Nov.4-5? @humanecanada We know we will. Registration still open! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/5fhyr2m4

A huge congratulations to this years Maybe Memorial Award recipient @yasmin_koop @UBCSociology at the @csa_sociology conference! Yasmin's work masterfully brings together environmental+nonhuman animal theory and+offers grounded applications for this important work #congressh #CSA

Brody Trottier @SocResearchUT theoretically rich analysis of media on nonhuman animals+labour during pandemic. Focus on use/exchange value frame discourse in solely economic terms &reinforce status-quo exploitation of nonhuman animals+workers in meat industry. #congressh #CSA

Tracey Harris from Cape Breton University discusses plight of meat industry workers + the nonhuman animals they slaughter + how it remains invisible to public and broader scrutiny. Could increased connection to food supply during pandemic impetus for change? #congressh #CSA

Stephen Muttazzi and Kristen Grieve’s @RyersonU present important work on the under-appreciated impacts and burdens of the pandemic on companion animals and veterinary professionals #congressh #CSA

et al = Linzi Williamson, Holly McKenzie, Ben Carey, Maria Cruz, Maryellen Gibson and Shaneice Fletcher-Hildebrand

@ColleenAnneDell et al @usaskArtSci explore ethical considerations of shift to online therapy dog @PawsStress programming during COVID. Asks how can we centre nonhuman animal well-being and reciprocal relationships now and what can we learn carrying forward? #congressh #CSA (1/2)

Sociology PhD Candidate Siyu Ru @usaskArtSci presents important work on the value and relationships between people who live with physical disabilities and their companion animals in Urban China. #congressh #CSA

PhD Candidate @SarahMayLindsay @McMasterSocSci presents work on speciesism in Intimate Partner Violence shelters. Raising important issues around the co-occurrence between human and nonhuman abuse and how speciesism creates unequal access to safe housing #congressh #CSA

@WesTourangeau @unilincoln presented thought provoking analysis on the uncertain benefits to plant-based meat alternatives – asks whether mainstreaming veganism is cumulative pathway to change or could slow or stall systemic advocacy efforts #congressh #CSA

Ellyse Winter @geo_uoft presenting on animal-industry complex + overlapping reinforcing paradigms of whiteness, capitalism, and animal exploitation. Highlights need for solidarity and alliance politics across social justice struggles #congressh #CSA

Stephen Muzzatti @RyersonU presents work w Dawn Rothe @FloridaAtlantic on violent commodification of nonhuman animals in the leisure industry. “...the separation of the self+other is a false perception of reality. We must see harm done to one as harm done to all” #congressh #CSA

Professor of Art Shannon Johnstone @MeredithCollege just wrapped up fascinating + moving talk on how empathy can be built in art featuring non-human animals by considering core principles of perspective, gesture, + composition #congressh #CSA

@McMasterSocSci PhD Candidate @SarahMayLindsay presents work on speciesism in Intimate Partner Violence shelters. Raising important issues around the co-occurrence between human and nonhuman abuse and how speciesism creates unequal access to safe housing #congressh #CSA

@usaskArtSci Sociology PhD Candidate Siyu Ru presents her important work on the relationship between people who live with disabilities and their companion animals in Urban China #congressh #CSA

Good Morning @csa_sociology #congressh #CSA! We’re very excited for our first session this morning on Acting Against Speciesism – Bringing Animals to the Centre - happening now!

@RogerYates "We don't have to "get" other animals rights. The case for animal rights says they have them already but they are not respected. This is the difference between moral and legal rights.
" 'Heard' today at the @VeganSociology conference #WordlyTogetherness #sociology

PhD student @yasmin_koop @UBCSociology asks what factors promote animal rights activism at #WorldlyTogetherness conference. Fascinating theoretical framing: networks, moral shock, and overcoming alienation from nature and the environment through interspecies ties 👏

Stephanie Belland from @MacEwanU discussing the mental health toll on humans doing animal rescue work...Secondary Traumatic Stress, burnout, depression, compassion fatigue but also hope in the protective resilience that compassion satisfaction can offer #WordlyTogetherness

Who are @Animals_Society members? What do we care about? @DrCoreyLeeWrenn shows her findings from her Survey of American sociologists of the ASA section of Animals & Society.