[csaa-forum] CFP: Critical Animals Studies in the Asia-Pacific

[Colin Salter]

Call for Papers
CFP: Critical Animals Studies in the Asia-Pacific

26-27th April 2014
Melbourne, Australia
Institute for Critical Animal Studies, Oceania

Alongside the common roots of the exploitation of other animals around the globe, regional paradigms and particularities present themselves. In reflection of this, and seeking to more concretely situate Critical Animal Studies (CAS) in the region, the second annual Oceanic Critical Animal Studies conference calls for papers which are geographically grounded. We are seeking proposals from activists and scholars engaged with controversies and challenges that have distinct specificities of and in the Asia-Pacific.

The Institute for Critical Animals Studies (ICAS) Oceania conference organising committee are particularly interested in panels, workshops and papers providing comparative engagement across countries and regions. Intersectional and transdisciplinary panels, visual art pieces and installations, and bilingual panels are encouraged. Non-academic and activist papers that explore grassroots movements are also sought.

Topics may include:

- Comparative analysis of live export controversies across countries and regions (i.e. Indonesia and Australia).

- The dispute over whaling in the Southern Oceans

- Palm oil deforestation

- Cultural disputes over different ‘food’ animals (i.e. dogs, kangaroos, dolphins)

- Masculinities and Sexualities (i.e. hunting, ‘meat and masculinity’)

- Global warming and its effects in Oceania

- Eco-ability

- Direct action analysis and tactics specific to the region

- Ocean preservation and debates (i.e. shark culling)

- The continuation of colonisation and western imperialism as it relates to nonhuman and human animals

- Growing threat of police and state repression of activists

- The debates between welfarism and total liberation as situated in Oceania

- Education and the animal industrial complex

- Literary and cinematic representations of other animals

- Critical theory and other animals

- Humanism and Posthumanism

- Intersectionality and CAS

- Education, vivisection and alternatives

- Sustainability

- A history of activism in Oceania

- Wildlife conservation in Oceania (i.e. traditional conservation vs compassionate conservation)

We encourage you to apply for the conference by sending us a 500 word abstract of the presentation or workshop and a short biographical note by 30th January 2014 to icasoceania at criticalanimalstudies.org

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