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Animals & Society Research Initiative (ASRI)

Research outputs

Peer-Reviewed

Maneesha Deckha:

“Animal (Rights) Law: Fifty Years of Taking Exception to Human Exceptionalism Amidst Enduring Themes” (2023) 50:3 Dal Law Journal 339-377. Open access: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol46/iss1/13/
"Animalization and Dehumanization Concerns: Another Psychological Barrier to Animal Law Reform” (2023) 2:2 PHAIR: Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations 1-16, Art e10147, open access: https://doi.org/10.5964/phair.10147.
“Human Children, Nonhuman Animals, and a Plant-Based Vegan Future” In Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2023), 175-204. Open access: https://brill.com/display/book/9789004679375/BP000015.xml
“Sup-Plant-ing Anthropocentric Legalities: Can the Rule of Law Tolerate Intensive Animal Agriculture?”, In International Law and Posthuman Theory, eds Mathilda Arvidsson and Emily Jones (London: Routledge, 2023).

Jodey Castricano:

“Learning by Heart: Storytelling and Animal Loss in the Anthropocene” in Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene, Wendy A. Wiseman, Burak Kesgin (Eds.) Willmington, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2024, 125-147.

Lisa Warden:

"Jati Kutta: the street dog, the servant, and me" (2022) 25:1 Between the Species.

Tayler Zavitz:

"Nothing to hide: How governments justify the adoption of ag-gag laws" (2024). Article by Anelyse M. Weiler, Tayler Zavitz, Canadian Review of Sociology, Nov. 2024 https://doi.org/10.1111/cars.12489
"Animal Oppression and Solidarity: Examining Representations of Animals and Their Allies in Twenty-First Century Media" (2021). Article by Tayler Zavitz and Corie Kielbiski, published in Media, Networking Knowledge 14 (2), Climate, Creatures and COVID-19 Special Issue. [View full article at Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association.]

Holly Cecil:

The iAnimal Film Series: Activating Empathy Through Virtual Reality (2021) 6:1 Screen Bodies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/screen.2021.060105

Collaborative Research

Animal Law & Youth Activism - documentary series — Animal Law and Youth Activism - short documentary series

watch the series on YouTube

Animal Markets and Zoonotic Disease in the United States (PDF)

Animal Markets and Zoonotic Diseases
(51 MB file)

The Default Veg Initiative: Measuring and Reducing Food Emissions at the University of Victoria — This project in collaboration with University Food Services and the Office of Sustainability measured the environmental impacts of university menus, including greenhouse gas emissions related to climate change. Concrete outcomes included menu shifts to prioritize plant-based menus, to reduce our campus emissions as part of UVic’s ‘Race to Zero’ pledge (Net Zero by 2040).

The Default Veg Initiative: Reducing Food Emissions
(2.8 MB)

Commentary

The UK’s Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill Excludes the Vast Majority of Animals: Why We Must Expand Our Moral Circle to Include Invertebrates

by Daniel Jakopovich, PhD

Download article as PDF

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Harvesters,” 1565.

by Angus Taylor:

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