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This is the personal website of Craig McFarlane, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Programme in Sociology at York University, Toronto and a lecturer in the Department of Law at Carleton University, Ottawa. I also contribute to The Inhumanities.
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Category Archives: Animals
Ottawa Animal Defence League versus Winterlude and the Ottawa Humane Society
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
The Ottawa Animal Defence League (I was unable to find a website for the group: their Twitter seems dead and their Facebook has zero content) has been rather successful lately in getting itself into the newspapers. Their protest against serving foie gras at some Winterlude event is a case in point: it garnered national coverage [...]
Abstracts for “Thinking With Animals” Conference
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Some abstracts for the “Thinking With Animals” conference at Brock University on March 31 and April 1. The first abstract is for a pre-constituted panel with Eric and James. The second is from a project I’ve been passively working on regarding the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals investigation/raid/take-over of the Toronto [...]
Feminization of the Veterinary Profession?
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Almost a year ago, Michael Ruse had a couple of posts at the CHE blog, Brainstorm, about the feminization of the veterinary profession in Ontario, but also presumably in general (here and here). A year later, the Toronto Star reports on the same thing. Both sets of articles locate this phenomena in the context of [...]
Assignments
Sunday, November 7, 2010
It is my general impression that the students I get, at least, have rarely–if ever–read a book cover to cover (and certainly not for pleasure). Obviously, as good as the Harry Potter and Twilight books are, they don’t count. For both my first year seminar (“Power and Violence”) and my third legal methods course (on [...]
ASLE Abstract
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Abstract for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference in June, for a session titled “The Vegan Challenge to Posthumanism.” It was written quickly, right at the deadline, and is therefore rather rough–perhaps too rough. Object-Oriented Animals? On Living Anti-Anthropocentrically Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) presents an intriguing and compelling criticism of anthropocentric assumptions [...]
Key Readings in Critical Animal Studies
Friday, October 22, 2010
The other day I was asked what I thought were the key readings in critical animal studies (CAS). For purposes of brevity, let’s refer to CAS as “animal studies” plus an “ethical orientation” that sees the (merely instrumental) use of animals by humans as morally unjustifiable. My sense is that few people read CAS and [...]
OSPCA vs. THS (yet again)
Monday, August 16, 2010
Today, the Crown announced it was dropping all charges against THS staff and directors citing constitutional reasons, apparently related to media involvement and the search warrants. Predictably, the OSPCA is outraged–outraged!!!–at this development and will, as one has to come expect of the OSPCA, be holding a press conference in a really expensive hotel. In [...]
An Eleventh Thesis on “True Blood”
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The hardest aspect of the show to understand is the role of blood, both real and synthetic. The previous two episodes point to its powers: it is already known that vampire blood has effects on humans and supernaturals who consume it, but the powers of supernatural blood on vampires has not been explored. It is [...]
