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University of Wollongong

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This Animal Which Is Not One: Diasporic Giraffes In The African Puppet Play Tall Horse And J. M. Ledgard's Novel Giraffe, Wendy Woodward Jan 2012

This Animal Which Is Not One: Diasporic Giraffes In The African Puppet Play Tall Horse And J. M. Ledgard's Novel Giraffe, Wendy Woodward

Animal Studies Journal

Tall Horse is a play with a life-size animal puppet about a giraffe sent as a royal tribute to post-revolutionary France in the 1820s. Giraffe is a novel about a herd of giraffes taken from Kenya to a Soviet-defined Czechoslovakia in the 1970s in order to breed a new species for ‘the glory of communism’. What pulls these disparate texts into very fruitful engagement is not just the species of animals themselves but why an animal accrues symbolic significance within particular moments in history and culture. Such accruals not only reveal the constructions of human thought but, conversely, may dramatically …

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'Pest' And Resource: A Legal History Of Australia's Kangaroos, Keely Boom, Dror Ben-Ami, David B. Croft, Nancy Cushing, Daniel Ramp, Louise Boronyak Jan 2012

'Pest' And Resource: A Legal History Of Australia's Kangaroos, Keely Boom, Dror Ben-Ami, David B. Croft, Nancy Cushing, Daniel Ramp, Louise Boronyak

Animal Studies Journal

This paper presents an investigation into the legal history of Australia’s kangaroos. It aims to provide a detailed analysis of how the law and policy governing the killing of kangaroos has evolved over time in response to changing public perceptions. This history begins with the pre-European period and traces the impact of European colonisation, early growth of the commercial kangaroo industry, and the increased role of science and regulation upon kangaroos. The paper critiques the historical designation of kangaroos as ‘pests’ that need to be ‘managed’ and argues that such an approach is inconsistent with current scientific understanding. As this …

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Introduction To Michele Elliot's The Vanishing, Sarah B. Miller Jan 2012

Introduction To Michele Elliot's The Vanishing, Sarah B. Miller

Animal Studies Journal

Michele Elliotʼs exhibition the vanishing formed part of the creative component of the Global Animal conference held at the University of Wollongong in Australia in 2011. Michele‟s evocative and powerful body of work, which considers the tiger in what she has called „a light of liminality‟, was a compelling complement to the presentations and discussions which took place during the conference

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Small Areas Of Ground: Writing Animals In Globalisation, Sally Borrell Jan 2012

Small Areas Of Ground: Writing Animals In Globalisation, Sally Borrell

Animal Studies Journal

If globalisation can be described as an evolution of imperialism on a global scale, as postcolonial theorist Bill Ashcroft suggests, what does that mean for contemporary writing about animals? This paper examines how questions of globalisation inflect the representation of animals in postcolonial fiction, taking the examples of Julia Leigh’s The Hunter(Australia), the recent film of the same name, and Laurence Fearnley’s Butler’s Ringlet(New Zealand). Their approaches differ in that both versions of The Hunter emphasise dangers associated with globalisation, whereas different reactions are in tension in Butler’s Ringlet. However, I argue that in each case responses to animals figure …

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What's In A Name? What Names For Albatross Genera Reveal About Attitudes To The Birds, Graham Barwell Jan 2012

What's In A Name? What Names For Albatross Genera Reveal About Attitudes To The Birds, Graham Barwell

Animal Studies Journal

Reasons for the choice of names for albatross genera were not provided by those who coined the names, when they derived those names in part from aspects of the ancient world of Greece and Rome. Subsequent explanations have been at times inadequate or unhelpful. The name Diomedea seems to have been influenced by Ovid’s account of the transformation of men into large birds. The name Thalassarche is straightforward, while Phoebastria and Phoebetria, with their associations with female prophecy, most likely recognise the associations of dark-coloured albatrosses with Quakerism and the traditions of women prophets in ancient times. Connections of albatrosses …

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Museum Of The Sublime: Relic # 5: Notes Towards A Fragmented Performance, Nikki Heywood Jan 2012

Museum Of The Sublime: Relic # 5: Notes Towards A Fragmented Performance, Nikki Heywood

Animal Studies Journal

Developing and presenting performance within the frame of Practice as Research leads to the creation of two media –the art work and its written account, including details of background research. Research on and through the intersubjective relations between animal and (gendered) human body(ies), from the Paleolithic on, incorporates visceral response, the nature of touch, and questions of empathy and representation.

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