Purpose–This paper seeks to problematise “accounting for biodiversity” and to provide a
framework for analysing and understanding the role of accounting in preserving and …

It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer
gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they …

Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to
literary and cultural theory, Animal Stories argues that key creative developments in …

Animal geographies has emerged over the last 15 years as a lively and provocative area of
current human/non-human geographical research and scholarship. Yet, while the 'animal …

What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories
about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of …

The emerging interdisciplinary field of animal studies seeks to shed light on the nature of
animal experience and the moral status of animals in ways that overcome the limitations of …

This essay is an historical exploration of the nexus between animals, agency, and class.
More significantly, it seeks to place the agency of horses, cows, sheep, pigs, etc. into the …

Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that
audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse …

Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know
as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent …

While Europeans kept pets long before the eighteenth century, many believed that doing so
was at best frivolous and at worst downright dangerous. Ingrid Tague argues that for Britons …