A5010360592- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Agricultural safety and regulations
University of Southampton
2014-2024
University of Roehampton
2024
At Bristol
2015-2017
Cardiff University
2006
The challenge to study the embodied, practical experience of consumption is attracting increasing interest in agro-food studies (Lockie 2002). This paper argues for attention be turned towards bodies animals, plants and humans, materially connected through network, enable a consumption. apprehends relationship between humans nonhumans two empirical examples from network applying 'relational materialist' (Thrift 1999) approach. approach worked by drawing upon concepts 'affordances' (Gibson...
Client behaviour change is at the heart of veterinary practice, where promoting animal health and welfare often synonymous with engaging clients in management practices. In medical realm, extensive research points to link between practitioner communication patient behavioural outcomes, suggesting that industry could benefit from a deeper understanding veterinarian its effects on client motivation. Whilst studies have quantified language components typical consultation, literature lacking...
Drawing on geographies of affect and nature - society relations, we propose a radical rethinking how scientists, social regulatory agencies conceptualise human animal participants in scientific research. The rationale for using bodies to simulate what could be done emphasises shared somatic capacities that generate comparable responses clinical interventions. At the same time, guidelines care practices stress differences between subjects. In this paper consider implications differentiation...
Abstract Background The current food system in England promotes a population diet that is high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS). To address this, the UK government has implemented legislation to restrict promotion of HFSS products prominent locations (e.g. store entrances, checkouts) qualifying retailers since October 2022. This study investigated perceived impact for affected stakeholders. Methods A pre-implementation rapid qualitative evaluation stakeholder interviews. One hundred eight...
Posthumanism has challenged the social sciences and humanities to rethink anthopocentricism within cultures societies they study take account of more-than-human agencies perspectives. This poses key methodological challenges, including a tendency for animal geographies focus very much on human side human-animal relations fail acknowledge animals as embodied, lively, articulate political subjects. In this paper, we draw recent ethnographic work, observing participating in care research...
Abstract Interventions aimed at improving animal welfare on farms may be more successful if greater attention is paid to the points of view farmers. For example, understanding how different dairy farmers detect lame cows, decide treat them, get them point treatment, and practical considerations that impact this process important for reducing lameness farms. In-depth interviews with twelve were carried out explore occurred their This in-depth approach allowed a number factors influencing...
The biomedical industry relies on the skills of animal technologists (ATs) to put laboratory welfare into practice. This is first study explore how this achieved in relation their participation implementing refinement and reduction, two three key guiding ethical principles––the “3Rs”––of what deemed be humane experimentation. interpretative approach contributes emerging work within social sciences humanities exploring care ethics Based qualitative analysis participant observation research...
Concern about eating biotechnologically produced foodstuffs is embedded within the complex relationship between food, science, politics, and everyday practices. In this paper I consider how concern expressed less at reflexive level of opinions attitudes more nonreflexive Therefore, draw upon literatures that talk a practical aesthetic assert significance material to geographical work, go on argue for connective This argument developed empirically theoretically by considering what extent...
Chapter 3 of When Species Meet opens with a fictional encounter between laboratory animal caretaker and the guinea pigs he works with. The is used to research sleeping sickness in cattle. As part experimental process, are shaved placed tight little baskets, wire cages filled biting flies over them, their skins painted poisons see if these sicken flies. During discussion an observer (a young girl), puts his arm into cage. His immediately covered by starts swell up. man explains does this...
Improving laboratory animal science and welfare requires both new scientific research insights from in the humanities social sciences. Whilst provides evidence to replace, reduce refine procedures involving animals (the '3Rs'), work sciences can help understand social, economic cultural processes that enhance or impede humane ways of knowing working with animals. However, communication across these disciplinary perspectives is currently limited, they design programmes, generate results,...
Laboratory animal science represents a challenging and controversial form of human-animal relations because its practice involves the deliberate inadvertent harming killing animals. Consequently, research has formed focus intense ethical concern regulation within UK, in order to minimize suffering pain experienced by those animals whose living bodies model human diseases amongst other things. This paper draws on longitudinal ethnographic in-depth interviews undertaken with junior laboratory...
Abstract Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming systems to mitigate climate change hidden hunger, ensure security good health all point reducing animal-based foods as a key lever. Moving beyond societal grand challenge requiring coordinated international by social sciences humanities. A ‘selective openness’ this range disciplines has been observed within...
This third and final ‘Geographies of food’ review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first second reviews in series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors work featured these — plus others whose was not but should have been were invited to respond them, talk about their own other people’s work, enter into conversations process other/new within beyond what could be called ‘food geographies’. These coded, edited, arranged, discussed rearranged produce a fragmentary,...
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for connections between human animal health. Animal also remains controversial its acceptability is contingent on a complex network relations assurances across science society, which are both formally constituted through law informal or assumed. In this paper, we propose these entanglements can be studied an approach that understands as nexus...
Abstract This paper argues that the current drive towards greater use of animal-based measures for welfare assessment raises important issues how farm visits by assessors are performed. As social scientists, we employ a number contemporary science ideas to offer new approach examining practice and performance animal assessment. We identify key findings from recent study speculate upon what some challenges introducing may be. conclude arguing awareness sets knowledge made, circulated,...
Engaging the interest of Western citizens in complex food connections that shape theirs' and others' personal wellbeing around issues such as security access is challenging. This article critical marketplace site for informing consumer behaviour argues instead arts-based participatory activities to support performance ecological non-commercial spaces. Following ongoing methodological conceptual fascination with performance, matter practice cultural studies, we outline what citizen, formed...
Guest Editorial. Since Katz and Kirby (1991) noted the challenge biotechnology presented to existing understandings of relationship between an externalised nature human individual, geographers have increasingly begun venture into complex fascinating spaces mapped out by advances in life sciences. The political, economic, cultural, theoretical implications hybrid entities, such as genetically modified (GM) foods, transgenetic organisms, genetic medicine, attracted much critical attention from...
Abstract Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise Lauren Berlant's influential concept ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites exemplifies performs centrality ambivalence thought, as well their orientation overdetermination incoherence....
Abstract As the profile of farm animal welfare rises within food production chains, in response both to consumer demand and greater ethical engagement with lives animals, is increasingly being commodified by various foodchain actors. That say that, over above regulatory or assurance scheme compliance, conditions criteria are used as a ‘value-added’ component distinctive selling point for products, brands even particular manufacturers retailers. We argue this paper that such commodification...
This paper presents a critique of supply chain responses to particular global wicked problem – antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It evaluates the understanding AMR (and drug-resistant infections) as food system challenge and critically explores how responsibility for addressing it is framed implemented. We place spotlight on strategies applied in UK retailers’ domestic poultry pork chains. provides timely analysis corporate engagement with light 2016 O’Neill report Tackling Drug Resistant...
Few veterinary professionals use formal quality of life (QOL) assessment tools despite their recommendation from governing bodies to enable holistic welfare assessments and target improvement strategies. Perceived barriers include resistance owners, this study aimed elucidate understanding dog owner engagement with conversations relating QOL. An online survey that investigated experience, comfort, opinions about vet-client discussions on topics connected canine health well-being, including...