In 2012, The Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, launched the first Critical ... more In 2012, The Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, launched the first Critical Animal Studies course at a Swedish University. This chapter tells the story of how the course was established and of the pedagogical relations occurring during the course, exploring in particular how theories from critical animal studies and critical media studies are integrated in both the curriculum and the teaching. In the chapter, special attention is devoted to the importance of ensuring that animal and media studies courses in academia adheres to the critique of human exploitation of nonhuman animals and keep explicit an ethical and practical commitment to the freedom of all animals. The chapter ends with some practical considerations for the further development of critical animal and media studies courses drawing on experiences from the course and specifically aimed at contributing to activist involvement in critical animal and media education, within and outside academia.
By putting these complex relationships in focus, this anthology investigates the ways in which hu... more By putting these complex relationships in focus, this anthology investigates the ways in which human society deals with its co-existence with animals. The volume was produced within the frame of the interdisciplinary “Animal Turn”-research group which during eight months in 2013–2014 was hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund university, Sweden. Along with invited scholars and artists, members of this group contribute with different perspectives on the complexities and critical issues evoked when the human-animal relationship is in focus.
Please visit the registration desk to receive information about logging into the WIFI network. GE... more Please visit the registration desk to receive information about logging into the WIFI network. GETTING AROUND LUND UNIVERSITY While most of the conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute, some of our keynote presentations will be taking place at other nearby buildings on campus. Please refer to the map below, which has the relevant locations marked according to the following legend:
This chapter, presenting the structure, pedagogical idea and outcome of the first Swedish Critica... more This chapter, presenting the structure, pedagogical idea and outcome of the first Swedish Critical Animal Studies course developed by the authors at Lund University in spring 2012, does not so much seek to establish once and for all what CAS “is,” but rather attempts do explore what CAS has a potential to do in the areas of animal theory, politics, and practice. Drawing on Biesta’s and Safstrom’s (2011) “Manifesto for education,” we frame CAS educational experiences as potential and process working in the tension between “what is” (the present societal order) and “what is not” (a utopian future). Four themes of our CAS course, together with the diverse array of student responses, are outlined: 1. Social constructions, positions, and representations of animals; 2. Boundary work, speciesism and intersectionalities; 3. Animals, violence, and societal organization; and 4. Animals and social change. We conclude with discussing potentialities of CAS education for critique and transformati...
Överallt omkring oss denna vår fördystrande fiende och brusande vän. Vad vore vår värld utan gran... more Överallt omkring oss denna vår fördystrande fiende och brusande vän. Vad vore vår värld utan granar, utan massaved, julgran och gravens ris. Vad vore den utan det skydd som granen ger och utan de skuggande sagor som bara kan berättas av granar. Vi uppsöker gläntornas ljus och bor till en del i städer där vi får för oss att vi är oss själva. Ändå är vi vad vi är ett granskogsfolk och med gran ska vi myllas.
General rights Unless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply:... more General rights Unless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply: Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal
There is a common saying in Aotearoa New Zealand: ‘the only good possum is a dead possum’. This c... more There is a common saying in Aotearoa New Zealand: ‘the only good possum is a dead possum’. This colloquialism demonstrates much about the negative reputation and maltreatment of brushtail possums in New Zealand. Introduced to this country from their native Australia in the 1800s, possums thrived in their new predator-free environment. Possums' adaptability has since proved to be problematic, not least for the nation's lucrative meat and dairy industries. In the past few decades a concerted campaign mounted by the New Zealand government has targeted possums as ruthless pests, demonizing these marsupials to the extent that international tourists are even advised to swerve while driving on the country's roads in order to hit and kill these animals. This paper examines how the print news media in New Zealand frames possums in a way that helps to sustain and encourage violence towards these marsupials. We argue that print media in New Zealand promote an overwhelmingly negativ...
In 2014, more than 200,000 refugees and migrants fled for safety across the Mediterranean Sea. Cr... more In 2014, more than 200,000 refugees and migrants fled for safety across the Mediterranean Sea. Crammed into overcrowded, unsafe boats, thousands drowned, prompting the Pope to warn that the sea was becoming a mass graveyard. The early months of 2015 saw no respite. In April alone more than 1,300 people drowned. This led to a large public outcry to increase rescue operations. Throughout this period, UNHCR and other humanitarian organisations, engaged in a series of largescale media advocacy exercises, aiming at convincing European countries to do more to help. It was crucial work, setting the tone for the dramatic rise in attention to the refugee crisis that followed in the second half of 2015. But the media was far from united in its response. While some outlets joined the call for more assistance, others were unsympathetic, arguing against increasing rescue operations. To learn why, UNHCR commissioned a report by the Cardiff School of Journalism to explore what was driving media coverage in five different European countries: Spain, Italy, Germany, the UK and Sweden. Researchers combed through thousands of articles written in 2014 and early 2015, revealing a number of important findings for future media advocacy campaigns. Most importantly, they found major differences between countries, in terms of the sources journalists used (domestic politicians, foreign politicians, citizens, or NGOs), the language they employed, the reasons they gave for the rise in refugee flows, and the solutions they suggested. Germany and Sweden, for example, overwhelmingly used the terms 'refugee' or 'asylum seeker', while Italy and the UK press preferred the word 'migrant'. In Spain, the dominant term was 'immigrant'. These terms had an important impact on the tenor of each country's debate. Media also differed widely in terms of the predominant themes to their coverage. For instance, humanitarian themes were more common in Italian coverage than in British, German or Spanish press. Threat themes (such as to the welfare system, or cultural threats) were the most prevalent in Italy, Spain and Britain.
Boken redogor for de huvudsakliga resultaten av ett forskningsprojekt som undersoker rollen som s... more Boken redogor for de huvudsakliga resultaten av ett forskningsprojekt som undersoker rollen som skogsagare. Empiriska data insamlades genom semistrukturerade intervjuer som i manga fall foljdes av promenadintervjuer da skogsagarna visade upp och berattade om sina skogsbruk. Intervjuernas genomsnittliga langd var 2 timmar 6 minuter. 49 av 50 intervjupersoner var man men i manga fall deltog aven deras partners. Samtliga intervjupersoner var 64 ar eller aldre och de agde mindre skogsbruk. Enbart en tiondel agde mer an 300 hektar skog. Intervjuerna genomfordes i 18 av Sveriges 20 lan. Tolkningarna av intervjuerna fokuserar centrala aspekter av rollen som privat skogsagare med mindre areal skog och vissa av dem fokuserar mer specifikt den aldre skogsagarens situation. Kapitel i boken:Skogens betydelser (som produktionsskog, naturskog, trivsam skog, skog for jakt, m.m.).Det langsiktiga arbetet med att forma skogen.Interaktionen med skogen.Identiteten som skogsagare.Den aktive skogsagaren....
In 2012, The Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, launched the first Critical ... more In 2012, The Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, launched the first Critical Animal Studies course at a Swedish University. This chapter tells the story of how the course was established and of the pedagogical relations occurring during the course, exploring in particular how theories from critical animal studies and critical media studies are integrated in both the curriculum and the teaching. In the chapter, special attention is devoted to the importance of ensuring that animal and media studies courses in academia adheres to the critique of human exploitation of nonhuman animals and keep explicit an ethical and practical commitment to the freedom of all animals. The chapter ends with some practical considerations for the further development of critical animal and media studies courses drawing on experiences from the course and specifically aimed at contributing to activist involvement in critical animal and media education, within and outside academia.
By putting these complex relationships in focus, this anthology investigates the ways in which hu... more By putting these complex relationships in focus, this anthology investigates the ways in which human society deals with its co-existence with animals. The volume was produced within the frame of the interdisciplinary “Animal Turn”-research group which during eight months in 2013–2014 was hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund university, Sweden. Along with invited scholars and artists, members of this group contribute with different perspectives on the complexities and critical issues evoked when the human-animal relationship is in focus.
Please visit the registration desk to receive information about logging into the WIFI network. GE... more Please visit the registration desk to receive information about logging into the WIFI network. GETTING AROUND LUND UNIVERSITY While most of the conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute, some of our keynote presentations will be taking place at other nearby buildings on campus. Please refer to the map below, which has the relevant locations marked according to the following legend:
This chapter, presenting the structure, pedagogical idea and outcome of the first Swedish Critica... more This chapter, presenting the structure, pedagogical idea and outcome of the first Swedish Critical Animal Studies course developed by the authors at Lund University in spring 2012, does not so much seek to establish once and for all what CAS “is,” but rather attempts do explore what CAS has a potential to do in the areas of animal theory, politics, and practice. Drawing on Biesta’s and Safstrom’s (2011) “Manifesto for education,” we frame CAS educational experiences as potential and process working in the tension between “what is” (the present societal order) and “what is not” (a utopian future). Four themes of our CAS course, together with the diverse array of student responses, are outlined: 1. Social constructions, positions, and representations of animals; 2. Boundary work, speciesism and intersectionalities; 3. Animals, violence, and societal organization; and 4. Animals and social change. We conclude with discussing potentialities of CAS education for critique and transformati...
Överallt omkring oss denna vår fördystrande fiende och brusande vän. Vad vore vår värld utan gran... more Överallt omkring oss denna vår fördystrande fiende och brusande vän. Vad vore vår värld utan granar, utan massaved, julgran och gravens ris. Vad vore den utan det skydd som granen ger och utan de skuggande sagor som bara kan berättas av granar. Vi uppsöker gläntornas ljus och bor till en del i städer där vi får för oss att vi är oss själva. Ändå är vi vad vi är ett granskogsfolk och med gran ska vi myllas.
General rights Unless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply:... more General rights Unless other specific re-use rights are stated the following general rights apply: Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal
There is a common saying in Aotearoa New Zealand: ‘the only good possum is a dead possum’. This c... more There is a common saying in Aotearoa New Zealand: ‘the only good possum is a dead possum’. This colloquialism demonstrates much about the negative reputation and maltreatment of brushtail possums in New Zealand. Introduced to this country from their native Australia in the 1800s, possums thrived in their new predator-free environment. Possums' adaptability has since proved to be problematic, not least for the nation's lucrative meat and dairy industries. In the past few decades a concerted campaign mounted by the New Zealand government has targeted possums as ruthless pests, demonizing these marsupials to the extent that international tourists are even advised to swerve while driving on the country's roads in order to hit and kill these animals. This paper examines how the print news media in New Zealand frames possums in a way that helps to sustain and encourage violence towards these marsupials. We argue that print media in New Zealand promote an overwhelmingly negativ...
In 2014, more than 200,000 refugees and migrants fled for safety across the Mediterranean Sea. Cr... more In 2014, more than 200,000 refugees and migrants fled for safety across the Mediterranean Sea. Crammed into overcrowded, unsafe boats, thousands drowned, prompting the Pope to warn that the sea was becoming a mass graveyard. The early months of 2015 saw no respite. In April alone more than 1,300 people drowned. This led to a large public outcry to increase rescue operations. Throughout this period, UNHCR and other humanitarian organisations, engaged in a series of largescale media advocacy exercises, aiming at convincing European countries to do more to help. It was crucial work, setting the tone for the dramatic rise in attention to the refugee crisis that followed in the second half of 2015. But the media was far from united in its response. While some outlets joined the call for more assistance, others were unsympathetic, arguing against increasing rescue operations. To learn why, UNHCR commissioned a report by the Cardiff School of Journalism to explore what was driving media coverage in five different European countries: Spain, Italy, Germany, the UK and Sweden. Researchers combed through thousands of articles written in 2014 and early 2015, revealing a number of important findings for future media advocacy campaigns. Most importantly, they found major differences between countries, in terms of the sources journalists used (domestic politicians, foreign politicians, citizens, or NGOs), the language they employed, the reasons they gave for the rise in refugee flows, and the solutions they suggested. Germany and Sweden, for example, overwhelmingly used the terms 'refugee' or 'asylum seeker', while Italy and the UK press preferred the word 'migrant'. In Spain, the dominant term was 'immigrant'. These terms had an important impact on the tenor of each country's debate. Media also differed widely in terms of the predominant themes to their coverage. For instance, humanitarian themes were more common in Italian coverage than in British, German or Spanish press. Threat themes (such as to the welfare system, or cultural threats) were the most prevalent in Italy, Spain and Britain.
Boken redogor for de huvudsakliga resultaten av ett forskningsprojekt som undersoker rollen som s... more Boken redogor for de huvudsakliga resultaten av ett forskningsprojekt som undersoker rollen som skogsagare. Empiriska data insamlades genom semistrukturerade intervjuer som i manga fall foljdes av promenadintervjuer da skogsagarna visade upp och berattade om sina skogsbruk. Intervjuernas genomsnittliga langd var 2 timmar 6 minuter. 49 av 50 intervjupersoner var man men i manga fall deltog aven deras partners. Samtliga intervjupersoner var 64 ar eller aldre och de agde mindre skogsbruk. Enbart en tiondel agde mer an 300 hektar skog. Intervjuerna genomfordes i 18 av Sveriges 20 lan. Tolkningarna av intervjuerna fokuserar centrala aspekter av rollen som privat skogsagare med mindre areal skog och vissa av dem fokuserar mer specifikt den aldre skogsagarens situation. Kapitel i boken:Skogens betydelser (som produktionsskog, naturskog, trivsam skog, skog for jakt, m.m.).Det langsiktiga arbetet med att forma skogen.Interaktionen med skogen.Identiteten som skogsagare.Den aktive skogsagaren....
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