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Animal Studies Journal 2014 3 (2): Cover Pages, Table Of Contents, Notes On Contributors And Editorial, Melissa J. Boyde, Sally Borrell

Animal Studies Journal

Cover pages, table of contents, contributor biographies and editorial for Animal Studies Journal Vol. 3 No. 2 2014

Review Article: Multispecies Mourning: Thom Van Dooren's Flight Ways: Life And Loss At The Edge Of Extinction By Thom Van Dooren, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

Animal Studies Journal

Thom van Dooren, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Sydney

Review: The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy And The Cultures Of Longing By Rachel Polinquin, Stephanie S. Turner

Animal Studies Journal

Rachel Poliquin, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012

Reviewed by Stephanie S. Turner, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Review: Defining Critical Animal Studies - An Intersectional Social Justice Approach For Liberation, Anthony J. Nocella Ii, John Sorenson, Kim Socha And Atsuko Matsuoka (Eds), Richard Twine

Animal Studies Journal

Anthony J. Nocella II, John Sorenson, Kim Socha and Atsuko Matsuoka, eds. Defining Critical Animal Studies - An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation. New York: Peter Lang, 2014

Reivewed by Richard Twine, Edge Hill University.

Review: Only The Animals By Ceridwen Dovey, Leigh Dale

Animal Studies Journal

Ceridwen Dovey, Only the Animals. Melbourne: Penguin 2014, pp248. ISBN 978-1-926428-58-1

Reviewed by Leigh Dale, University of Wollongong.

Review: Spirited: Australia's Horse Story, National Museum Of Australia, Canberra, Isa Menzies

Animal Studies Journal

Spirited: Australia's Horse Story, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 11 September 2014 - 9 March 2015

Reviewed by Isa Menzies, Australian National University.

Posthumanism And Animal Rights: Rethinking 'The Human', Rethinking The 'Self', Benjamin Bolton

Animal Studies Journal

This piece seeks to extend Jacques Derrida’s and Cary Wolfe’s explorations of posthumanism and the production of ‘the human’ as divided and removed from its embedding within the world. It does so in order to shift the focus of animal welfare ethics away from specific practices and behaviours towards a fundamental reconceptualisation of animal/human relationships. Cary Wolfe’s work questions the fundamental tenets of the construction of the human through ocular domination. This vision-as-mastery permits the capacity for truth and control to be extended from the human self to all other beings. Vision, however, is a fundamentally flawed sense. In the …

Creative Work: Love Myst, Sandra Burr

Animal Studies Journal

Creative work by Sandra Burr, University of Canberra.

Review: Animals And Early Modern Identity, Pia F. Cuneo (Ed), Erica Fudge

Animal Studies Journal

Pia F. Cuneo ed., Animals and Early Modern Identity. Farnham: Ashgate 2014

Reviewed by Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde.

Elegy: Counting Up My Dead (For Sandra Burr), Jen Webb

Animal Studies Journal

The loss of a loved one often forces the bereaved to question their philosophical frameworks, their ontology and epistemology foundations, and their own mortality. Following the recent and sudden death of Sandra Burr, my dear friend and valued colleague, I have been going through this same sad process. But the hard work of mourning is to some extent eased by time spent thinking about and reading through millennia of writings on being, death and grieving. The many thoughtful works by many fine writers provide vivid reminders that no matter who we might be, or in what context we live, the …

Review: The Logos Of The Living World: Merlau-Ponty, Animals, And Language By Louise Westling, Peta Tait

Animal Studies Journal

Louise Westling, The Logos of the Living World: Merlau-Ponty, Animals, and Language. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014

Reviewed by Peta Tait, University of Wollongong

Creative Work: The Rabbit, Catherine Cole

Animal Studies Journal

Creative work by Catherine Cole, University of Wollongong.

Animal Studies Journal 2014 3 (1): Cover Pages, Table Of Contents, Notes On Contributors And Editorial, Melissa J. Boyde, Sally Borrell, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Chris Degeling

Animal Studies Journal

Cover pages, table of contents, contributor biographies and editorial for Animal Studies Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 2014

A Cow's Eye View? Cattle Empathy And Ethics In Screen Representations Of Temple Grandin, Claire Henry

Animal Studies Journal

Temple Grandin has been a captivating figure for both animal and disability studies, and for filmmakers. Known for designing more humane livestock handling processes in the US cattle industry, and for her books and public speaking on autism, Grandin’s celebrity then became popularly constructed through screen representations including the First Person episode Stairway to Heaven’ (Errol Morris, 2001), the BBC’s Horizon episode ‘The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow’ (Emma Sutton, 2006), and the HBO Films biopic Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson, 2010).

Grandin’s biographies credit her autism with providing privileged access to bovine subjectivity and much is made of this …

Stripes Faded, Barking Silenced: Remembering Quagga, Rick De Vos

Animal Studies Journal

The death of the last quagga on August 12, 1889 represented the loss of a long-term resident of the Artis Magistra Zoo in Amsterdam, at the time a private institution accessible only to members. The mare’s death was not recognised at the time as signifying the extinction of the quagga, largely due to the vague and general usage of the term ‘quagga’. The delay in understanding the significance of this death, and the way in which quaggas rapidly disappeared in the wild in southern Africa in the nineteenth century, have been overshadowed in scientific and historical accounts by debates concerning …

The Flight Of Birds, Joshua Lobb

Animal Studies Journal

'The Flight of Birds' is a retelling – and a reconfiguration – of a story contained in Katharine Briggs’ British Folk-Tales and Legends (1977). It engages with the way animals are used in folk tales as symbols of human psyche, but, more importantly, the way animals in stories can move beyond simply symbolic value. In the original story, and in my retelling of it, birds appear both as extensions of the characters’ emotional state, and as creatures with an agency and power beyond human interests.

The piece tells the story twice: first as a simplified summary of the original, followed …

Review: Animal Death, Edited By Jay Johnston And Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Barbara Creed

Animal Studies Journal

Animal Death, edited by Jay Johnston and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2013

Reviewed by Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne

Review: Among Animals: The Lives Of Animals And Humans In Contemporary Short Fiction, Edited By John Yunker, Sascha Morrell

Animal Studies Journal

Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction, edited by John Yunker. Ashland, ON: Ashland Creek Press, 2014

Reviewed by Sascha Morrell, University of New England

Seeing The Predator: Review Of The Eye Of The Crocodile, By Val Plumwood; Edited By Lorraine Shannon, Jane Lymer

Animal Studies Journal

Seeing the Predator: Review of The Eye of the Crocodile, by Val Plumwood; edited by Lorraine Shannon. Acton, ACT: ANU E Press, 2012. http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/the-eye-of-the-crocodile/

Reviewed by Jane Lymer, University of Wollongong

What's In A Name? Well, 'This Ere "Tortis" Is A Insect', Daniel Lunney

Animal Studies Journal

When I analysed the diversity of (non-human) animal life in the abstracts from the Australian Animals Study Group conference in July 2013, I identified a concentration on large, well-known mammals, which from a zoological standpoint are a miniscule proportion of the world’s animals, and even a highly skewed sample of mammals. It raises questions about the interpretation of ‘animal’ if for one person it denotes ‘big mammal’ and for another a rat, a bat or even a bristle worm. As a zoologist, I work in a world where animals are classified in orders, genera and species. The formal Linnaean system …

A Suite Of Creatures, Meera Atkinson

Animal Studies Journal

Creative pieces by Meera Atkinson.

Review: A New Zealand Book Of Beasts: Animals In Our Culture, History And Everyday Life, By Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong And Deidre Brown, Sally Borrell

Animal Studies Journal

A New Zealand Book of Beasts: Animals in Our Culture History and Everyday Life, by Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong and Deidre Brown. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2013. 288pp.

Reviewed by Sally Borrell