09th Feb2013

1st Annual Conference “Engaging with Eco-ability”

by Anthony Nocella
1st Annual Conference “Engaging with Eco-ability”
University of Binghamton, New York
April 27 and 28, 2013

Theme:
A Politics of Disability and Animal Liberation

CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

The 1st Annual Conference “Engaging with Eco-ability” will be hosted at Binghamton University April 27th & 28th, 2013. The conference will be organized and moderated by Anthony Nocella II and JL Schatz. The goal of this conference is to lay the groundwork for an edited book that’s part of the Critical Animal Studies series published by Lexington Books.

Category : Eco-Ability, North America
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02nd Nov2012

Speak Free – empower yourself through language

by Institute for Critical Animal Studies

A free anti-oppression workshop in Asheville, NC

Saturday, Nov. 10 | 6pm-9pm

Category : Academia, anarchism, Courses/Workshops, Critical Animal Studies, critical race theory, Eco-Ability
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01st Nov2012

Journal for Critical Animal Studies

by Institute for Critical Animal Studies

Finally, after a number of years of many people around the world requesting articles and issues from the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS), which were not online, every JCAS issue is now online! Click here for every issue. JCAS has also moved back to the ICAS website from the Hamline University website. Hamline University does not host JCAS anymore.

Category : Academia, Critical Animal Studies, critical race theory, Eco-Ability, Eco-feminism, Ecopedagogy, Environmental Ethics, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Journals
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24th Sep2012

“Greening the Academy” book – Coming Soon

by Anthony Nocella

Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts
Edited by: Samuel Fassbinder, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Richard Kahn

Sense Publishing (2012)

“Many of the most important forces for social change in human history have taken root in our universities, and today the academy is a crucial site where scholars are working to integrate ecological sustainability and social justice. Greening the Academy is a clarion call for deep green approaches to thinking, teaching, research, and action that can make a dramatic and positive difference for the future of all species.”

- Dr. David Naguib Pellow, Author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago

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Category : Disability, Eco-Ability, Eco-feminism, Ecopedagogy, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Literature, environmental sociology, Envrionmental History, Gender Studies, Green Criminology, green economics, International, Veganism
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11th Sep2012

ICAS Representing at Twin Cities Anarchist Bookfair

by Anthony Nocella

CAS will be tabling at the Third Annual Twin Cities Anarchist Book Fair on Sept. 15 and 16, 2012: http://tcanarchist.org/. At the event, ICAS’s Executive Director Anthony J. Nocella will hold a workshop on The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, an anthology he co-edited and released through AK Press, and present on a panel with members of Save the Kids, a transformative juvenile justice organization that he co-founded. Kim Socha, ICAS’s Director of the CAS Center of Academic Excellence, will facilitate a workshop entitled “Women, Destruction and Animal Liberation,” which pulls from themes of her book Women, Destruction and the Avant-Garde: A Paradigm for Animal Liberation (Rodopi Publishing, 2011).

Category : anarchism, Books, Critical Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Disability, Eco-Ability, feminism, Gender Studies, Media Releases
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17th May2012

Call for Submission for Special Issue of JCAS

by Anthony Nocella

CALL FOR PAPERS, ART, VIDEOS, INTERVIEWS, AND NARRATIVES

“Eco-Ability the Intersection of Earth, Animal, and Dis-Ability”

This special edition of JCAS will focus on intersections amongst animal liberation issues, environmentalism, ecology, dis-ability studies, and the newly forming theory, field, and movement of eco-ability. This edition, rooted in social justice, will explore these intersections of domination and exploitation to expose and dismantle interconnected oppressions. Contributors are encouraged to read and include information from Earth, Animal, and Disability Liberation: The Rise of Eco-Ability (Nocella, Duncan, Bentley, Eds.; forthcoming from Peter Lang, Fall 2012) within their final submissions. Areas for this special edition may include, but are not limited to, the following:

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Category : Anti-Dissection/Vivisection, Call for Papers/Proposals, Critical Animal Studies, Disability, Eco-Ability, Environmentalism, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Journals
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