Interviews with Authors, Editors, and Academics
Our Interview with the Author series offers readers in-depth conversations with authors and editors of the ASI-managed Human-Animal Studies Book Series. Each interview explores the intellectual interests, inspirations, and contexts that shaped the work within these volumes. Our interviews also extend beyond this Book Series to other academics working in the evolving field of Human-Animal Studies.
Tapestry: Weaving a Kind and Peaceful World | Interview with Lisa Kemmerer
“There can be no anymal liberation without human liberation and there can be no human liberation without anymal liberation—there is only total liberation.” Lisa Kemmerer, Oppressive Liberation: Sexism in Animal Activism Internationally known for her work in animal ethics, Professor Emeritus Dr. Lisa Kemmerer has been...
Interview with the Editors | Nik Taylor & Tania Signal – Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations
In 2011, Nik Taylor and Tania Signal published Theorizing Animals: Re-thinking Humanimal Relations in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series. Utilising ideas from post-modernism and post-humanism this book challenges current ways of thinking about animals and their relationships with humans. Including...
From Academia to Action | Interview with Jes Hooper, founder of The Civet Project
Jes Hooper is a postgraduate researcher in Anthropology at the University of Exeter, and the founder of The Civet Project, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness about civet exploitation in the coffee trade. Her doctoral research focused on human-civet interactions and “disappearance” in the Anthropocene. She has...
Interview with the Author | Lindsay Hamilton and Nik Taylor – Animals at Work: Identity, Politics and Culture in Work With Animals
"Species does not need to be the barrier to inclusion that has kept animals out of the social sciences at large; we need new animal-inclusive methods, multispecies methods, and new forms of writing." In 2013, Lindsay Hamilton and Nik Taylor published Animals at Work: Identity, Politics, and Culture in Work with...
Interview with the Author | Justyna Wlodarczyk – Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s
In 2018, Justyna Wlodarczyk published Genealogy of Obedience: Reading North American Dog Training Literature, 1850s-2000s in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series. This volume provides a long overdue look at the history of companion dog training methods in North America since the mid-nineteenth...
Interview with the Author | Lisa Kemmerer – In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals
In 2006, Dr. Lisa Kemmerer published In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series. This volume introduces the most important ideas in animal ethics and builds on a critical dialogue emerging at the intersection of animal rights, environmental ethics, and...
Interview with the Editors | Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic
We are excited to share the latest release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Sentient Entanglements and Ruptures in the Americas: Human-Animal Relations in the Amazon, Andes, and Arctic. This volume, edited by Maggie Bolton and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, draws together anthropological studies...
Interview with the Editors | Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification
We are excited to share the recent release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification, edited by Julien Dugnoille and Elizabeth Vander Meer. In this book, the term “resistance” is reclaimed by exploring how animals can “resist”...
Interview with the Author | Sarah Czerny – Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks
We are excited to share the latest release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, Absent Interests: On the Abstraction of Human and Animal Milks, by Sarah Czerny. By asking the question of, “How does milk become cow milk, donkey milk, or human milk?” Czerny takes readers through an ethnographic...
Interview with the Editors | The Relational Horse: How Frameworks of Communication, Care, Politics, and Power Reveal and Conceal Equine Selves
We are excited to share the latest release in the ASI-managed Brill Human-Animal Studies Book Series, The Relational Horse: How Frameworks of Communication, Care, Politics and Power Reveal and Conceal Equine Selves. In this anthology edited by Gala Argent and Jeannette Vaught, human-horse relationships take the...