A/Prof. Wendy Steele1, Dr Ilan Wiesel2, Dr Cecily Maller1 1Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2School of Geography, Melbourne, Australia In this paper we engage the twin concepts of ‘the stray’ and ‘the friend’ for developing empathetic imaginings...
- May 9, 2019
Dr Christoph Rupprecht1 1Research Institute For Humanity And Nature, Kyoto, Japan Cities are built entirely around human needs, including harnessing non-humans for ecosystem services in the form of green infrastructure. This anthropocentrism extends to the concept of sustainability itself...
- May 9, 2019
Dr Yamini Narayanan1 1Deakin University India’s intriguing status as among the world’s largest milk producer, beef exporter, and one of the top leather producers – industries which are substantially sustained by the mass slaughter of bovines – implausibly coexists...
- May 9, 2019
Dr Max Kelly1 1Deakin University, , Australia Despite a heavy reliance on draft animal power, donkeys are not traditional animals in Malawi. Currently, there are approximately 15,000 donkeys in Malawi, many descending from 300 donkeys imported in the late...
- May 9, 2019