[csaa-forum] Sarah Whatmore @ Sydney Next week

Wed Apr 2 07:56:22 CST 2014

Dear All,

HARN: Human Animal Research Network (USyd) is delighted to be hosting Visiting Fellow – Professor Sarah Whatmore (Oxford), next week.  Her visit includes 2 events, details below.  All are welcome, events are free, though registration is required.  Details below and also at the HARN website;  http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn/news_events/whatmore_events.shtml

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Cheers, fiona

"THE BADGERS MOVED THE GOALPOSTS": TRIAL CULLS AND ANIMAL POLITICS IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE  TUESDAY 8 APRIL
PROFESSOR SARAH J. WHATMORE, ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY, THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
The badger (Meles meles) is one of the most iconic creatures in the English popular imaginary. In childhood, Mr badger is introduced as the sage keeper of order in the wild woods in Kenneth Grahame’s familiar tale ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (1908). Yet, as nocturnal creatures whose complex social worlds are lived out for the most part in labyrinthine underground sets, few of the people they live amongst in this densely populated country are ever likely to encounter them first-hand. The history of their relations with people mixes savage persecution, as the subject of a once commonplace country ‘sport’ of baiting, and statutory protection as the subject of an act of parliament - the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.

Today, the badger is caught lethally in the political cross-fire between these contrapuntal energies as farmers and conservationists dispute its role in the transmission of bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis), a disease that plagues the English dairy cattle industry. It is a dispute that ostensibly looks to science for the answers, culminating in the autumn of 2013 in a trial cull of badgers in two locations. In the process, however, it is badgers themselves that have been seen to expose the poverty of this formulation of the relationship between science and politics.  In this paper I interrogate how it was that badgers came to ‘move the goalposts’ and with what consequences for better understanding the nature and dynamics of knowledge controversies.

More event information <http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-sarah-whatmore>
TUESDAY 8 APRIL
6 to 7.30pm
Law School LT 101, Level 1
Sydney Law School, Eastern Avenue,
The University of Sydney
Click here <http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/campus.shtml  for venue information
RSVP
Free event with online registration requested. Click here <http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-sarah-whatmore>  for the registration page.

"MORE THAN HUMAN” SEMINAR – April 9th, 2.30-4.30
PRESENTERS:
Professor Lesley Head ‘The distinctive capacities of plants, and implications for animal studies”
A/Prof Dale Dominey-Howes  ‘Not without Patsy’: animal – human relationships in natural disaster contexts’
A/Prof Kane Race “Dog of a legal clause: the instrumentalization of animals in police powers (drug detection laws)

RESPONDENT: PROF SARAH WHATMORE
CHAIR: PROF MIKE MICHAEL
To register:
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn/news_events/whatmore_events.shtml

Location: Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building A22, University of Sydney

Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey | Senior Lecturer
Gender and Cultural Studies | SOPHI
HARN:  http://sydney.edu.au/arts/research/harn
Vice-Chair, AASG  www.aasg.org.au
https://sydney.academia.edu/FionaProbynRapsey

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Main Quad A14| The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006

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