Australasian Animal Studies Association
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The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) is an Australian association of animal studies scholars, scientists, creative artists, and animal advocates.[1] The association was founded by Siobhan O’Sullivan, a professor from the School of Social Sciences of the University of New South Wales (UNSW).[2]
The association started publishing in 2008 the AASA News Bulletin as a quarterly electronic publication. The publication is presently the publication Animail.[3] The online scholarly publication for human-animal studies for the association is the Animal Studies Journal.[4]
The association also hosts a variety of conferences on animal studies. The 2023 conference was titled Animal Cultures and discussed the "emerging scientific and philosophical considerations of culture in non-human animal communities".[5] As part of its efforts to support creative artists in the realm of animal studies, the association maintains an online art gallery.[6] The association also hosts the Val Plumwood Lecture Series.[7] Starting in 2021, the association began awarding the AASA Animal Studies Awards.[2]
Animal Studies Journal
[edit]The Animal Studies Journal works closely with the AASA. The journal is published twice a year and is a forum for research in topic of human-animal studies. The journal is cross-disciplinary in the content that it publishes. It has a particular, but not exclusive, interest in Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific scholarship.[8] The chief editor for the journal is Dr. Melissa Boyde of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia.[9]
Val Plumwood Lecture Series
[edit]The AASA hosts the Val Plumwood Lecture Series. Val Plumwood was an Australian environmental philosopher.[10] The 2024 lecture was titled "Social Lives of Animals: Domination, Intersectionality, and Heterotopia".[11]
AASA Animal Studies Awards
[edit]The following awards are awarded by the association:[2]
- The AASA Journal Article Prize: A prize for excellence in the work of early-career researchers. The inaugural prize in 2021 was awarded to Dr. Brodie Evans, a visiting fellow at the Centre of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. His article was Contesting and reinforcing the future of ‘meat’ through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat, which was co-authored with Dr. Hope Johnson. It was published in 2021 in the journal Geoforum.[12][13]
- The AASA Popular Communication of Animal Studies Prize: A prize for "increasing public awareness of the field and its value to human-animal relations". The inaugural prize in 2021 was awarded to Claudia Hirtenfelder, who hosts The Animal Turn Podcast. The podcast addresses the new focus on animals in modern times.[14]
Conferences
[edit]The theme of the 2023 conference was 'Animal Cultures'. The keynote speaker for the conference was U.S. author Carol Gigliotti with Why knowledge of animal cultures is critical.[15][16]
References
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- ^ a b c "New awards scheme advances the emerging sub-discipline of animal studies".
- ^ "'Animail': e-Bulletin | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ "Journal – Australasian Animal Studies Association". Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ "Conference 2023 – Animal Cultures | 27-28 November, University of Sydney | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. 2023-07-26. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
- ^ "Gallery | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. 2023-05-27. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ McKenna, Ant (2024-10-09). "2024 Val Plumwood lecture | Australasian Animal Studies Association". animalstudies.org.au. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ "Journal – Australasian Animal Studies Association". Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ "UOW Open Access Journals". www.uowoajournals.org. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ iseeenviroethics (2008-02-29). "Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008)". ISEE - International Society for Environmental Ethics. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ "2024 Val Plumwood Lecture". events.humanitix.com. 2024-10-28. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ "Knowing Animals". knowinganimals.libsyn.com. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ Evans, Brodie, and Hope Johnson. "Contesting and reinforcing the future of ‘meat’ through problematization: Analyzing the discourses in regulatory debates around animal cell-cultured meat." Geoforum 127 (2021): 81-91.
- ^ Turn, The Animal (2021-12-05). "AASA Award for Popular Communication of Animal Studies". The Animal Turn. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
- ^ "Research Portal". research.usc.edu.au. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ AASA-2023-Conference-Program20231114.pdf