Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis Edited by Benjamin Frymer, Tony Kashani, Anthony J. Nocella, II, and Richard Van Heertum; with a Foreword by Lawrence Grossberg This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a[...]
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September 14th, 2010 - 6:46 pm § in Academics, Books, Campus Activism, Campus Events, Media Releases, Veganism
Author Carol J. Adams to speak at Western Kentucky University
Author of the ground breaking book, “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Carol J. Adams will discuss the relationship between meat eating and patriarchal values at Western Kentucky University. A free vegan food tasting will begin at 6:30p.m. This event is[...]
New Book – “Change of Heart” by Nick Cooney
“Invaluable. This is THE manual for anyone with a deep commitment or only a daydream about creating a more just and sympathetic world. Nick Cooney has boiled it all down to show how simple it can be to turn compassion, rage or angst into intelligent action. Cooney offers fascinating real life exam[...]
July 12th, 2010 - 7:57 pm § in Books, Media Releases
New Book – Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies by ICAS Europe Director, Richard Twine
In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal [...]
CFP: Critical Animal Studies Book Series
Call for Book Proposals We are pleased to invite proposals for a new book series, Critical Animal Studies, to be published by Rodopi Press, one of Europe’s premiere academic presses. The main goals of the series, which differentiates it from the pre-existing series in the field of animal stu[...]
Stop Academic Repression – Book Talk with Anthony Nocella
On Saturday March 7th, join us at Wooden Shoe Books for an evening of discussion with Anthony J. Nocella II, co-editor of the exciting new volume Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex, out now from AK Press. Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured universit[...]
February 9th, 2010 - 8:54 pm § in Books, Centers/Working-Groups, Conference, Courses/Workshops, Journals
Call for Nominations for Annual 2010 Critical Animal Studies Awards
**Call for Nominations for Annual 2010 Critical Animal Studies Awards. Deadline Feb 25, 2010. Please send nominations to Sarat Colling: editor@politicalmediareview.org **There are four awards see below for descriptions. ______________________________________________________________ 1. Critical Anima[...]
Now Accepting Commentary and Summaries for JCAS
Most recently to build a bigger and better bridge between academics and activists the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) is now accepting for the first time commentary and summaries of events, forums, lectures. etc. See below for submission guidelines. Please read these guidelines below and [...]
New Publication – Animals in Schools
From ICAS’s Co-Senior Editor of the Critical Animal Studies Book Series, Helena Pedersen comes, “Animals in Schools: Processes and Strategies in Human-Animal Education” an outstanding and pivotal short 128 page easy publication to read. Pedersen opens the book with a detailed analy[...]
January 15th, 2010 - 8:09 am § in Books
Looking for young writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers in animal liberation!
Calling all radicals! Emergent Thought Magazine is looking for submissions to the March/April 2010 issue. We seek writers, thinkers, artists, photographers, filmmakers, and activists between the ages 18-35 who envision a holistic animal liberation, a reconstruction of human-animal relationships. Her[...]
