'Animals in Civic Futures' brings together interdisciplinary academics from across geography, sociology and cultural practices to discuss multispecies perspectives on the lives and geographies of animals over an informal networking lunch. The event is presented in collaboration with the Animal Geographies Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society (AGWG).
More info on the AGWG can be found here: https://www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/
This Creative Manchester Research Café is the final of three exploring the significance of non-human presence and agency in theory and practice for imagining 'Civic Futures'.
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Chair – Dr Jenna C. Ashton, Research Lead for Creative ad Civic Futures, Creative Manchester.
Jenna C. Ashton is a Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The University of Manchester and an arts-practice researcher working on cultural analysis and theory at the nexus between community heritage, ecologies, place, and social and environmental justice. She has a background in artmaking, exhibition curation, creative producing, and arts-education.
Dr Jamie Arathoon is an ESRC Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh, interested in animal geographies, disability geographies, and ethnomethodology. Jamie has two work strands. First, examining care and training in assistance dog partnerships, and second, on the geographies of pet theft. For both Jamie’s research projects, they work collaboratively with geographers and other stakeholders across governmental and charity organisations. Jamie is interested in working on human-animal relations through video.
Dr Aurora Fredriksen
Aurora is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Her research explores more-than-human ways of knowing and living through social and ecological crises, ordinary articulations of the Anthropocene, and the ethical challenges of living with wildlife on an increasingly human planet. She has worked with visual and mobile methods and is currently developing creative and interdisciplinary research collaborations to address socio-ecological crises.
Dr Ekaterina Gladkova is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Northumbria University, interested in critical understandings of practices, politics and human/more-than-human entanglements in food production. She has been developing research into industrial pig farming and environmental injustice, and more recently has focused on creative practice-rooted approaches to food system transformation and alternative food production imaginaries. She will discuss how an artistic practice can offer possibilities for contemplating more-than-human civic futures, reflecting on Re:Pig and SOW, her recent collaborative projects with an artist Naho Matsuda.
Dr Ihnji Jon is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar committed to expanding discussions on political ecology with and beyond distributive justice, by bringing in feminist relational approach to identity, politics, and space. She is the author of the book Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics and currently working on a new book on the politics of spatial justice in previously disinvested urban environments.
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