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This Week in Defining Human-Animal Studies: Defining Kinesthetic Empathy with Ken Shapiro
This week’s Defining HAS video comes to us from psychologist Kenneth Shapiro, who has discussed the term Kinesthetic Empathy. You can find the video here!
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Did You Know? Farmed Animals…
Did you know that worldwide about 70 billion farm animals are now reared for food each year? Most of these animals are not considered sentient beings, only products to be used.Help ASI spread awareness on World Day for Farmed Animals. Check out the...
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This Week in Defining HAS: Defining Zoocentrism with Alison Hanlon
This week’s Defining HAS video comes to us from animal welfare scientist and ethicist Alison Hanlon, who has discussed the term Zoocentrism. You can find the video here!
read moreNew HAS Readings September 2019
Adams, M. (2019). The kingdom of dogs: Understanding Pavlov’s experiments as human-animal relationships. Theory and Psychology, 1-21. Armbruster, Karla. “The Gaze of Predators and the Redefinition of the Human.” On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental...
read moreNew HAS Books September 2019
Here are the books we are excited about this month! Leshko, I. (2019). Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries. University of Chicago Press. There’s nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet—a dog or cat who has been at our...
read more Did You Know? Rhinos…
ASI is celebrating rhinos on World Rhino Day! SavetheRhino.org estimates that there were 500,000 rhinos across Africa and Asia at the beginning of the 20th century. Today the group says there are 29,000 rhinos left in the wild. Although poaching has...
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This Week in Defining Human-Animal Studies: Defining Animal Geography with Julie Urbanik
This week’s Defining HAS video comes to us from geographer and legal scholar Julie Urbanik, who has discussed the term Animal Geography. You can find the video here!
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