RHN 39/2024 | Event
Organisers: Helen Wadham (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Nora Schuurman (University of Turku, Finland) and Kate Dashper (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
18 March 2024, Online Event
Online Launch of Special Issue in Sociologia Ruralis on
“Privilege, vulnerability & care: Interspecies dynamics in rural landscapes”
Join the editors for the online launch of the special issue in Sociologia Ruralis on “Privilege, vulnerability & care: Interspecies dynamics in rural landscapes” with guest discussant Prof. Nickie Charles & contributing authors from across Europe, Australia & India (see the great papers below!).
Date: Monday, March 18th
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (GMT)
SI edited by Helen Wadham (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), Nora Schuurman (University of Turku, Finland) and Kate Dashper (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
Discussant: Nickie Charles, Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick, UK
Register here.
Among our shared areas of interest are:
- Everyday interactions with animals in rural settings
- The impact of rural work on humans & animals
- The challenges & opportunities of climate change for human-animal coexistence
Papers in the special issue:
Wadham H., Schuurman N. & Dashper K. (forthcoming) Editors’ introduction to special issue on “Privilege, vulnerability and care: Interspecies dynamics in rural European landscapes.”
Holloway, L., Mahon, N., Clark, B. & Proctor, A. (2023) Interspecies encounters with endemic health conditions: Co-producing BVD and lameness with cows and sheep in the north of England.
Maderson, S. & Elsner-Adams, E. (2023) Beekeeping, stewardship and multispecies care in rural contexts.
Randell-Moon, H. (2023) The mice plague and the assemblage of beastly landscapes in regional and rural Australia.
Saha, S. (2023) Sacred serpents and the discourse on conservation: Interrogating interspecies dynamics in rural Bardhaman.
Wernesson, H. & Boonstra, W. (forthcoming) Making meat moral: A comparison of rearing and killing practices in Swedish cattle farming.
Contact Email
h.wadham@mmu.ac.uk
URL
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-special-issue-in-sociologia-ruralis