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Dr PAULA ARCARI

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1803-0772

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    20022020

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    Paula is a Leverhulme ECR Fellow located within the Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University.

    Her three-year project ‘The visual consumption of animals: challenging persistent binaries’ aims to support transformational change in the way humans conceive and interact with nature. Focusing on zoos, racecourses (horses and greyhounds), and agricultural or county shows as sites where such visual consumption is routinized, the project will use qualitative research methods to:

    1. Examine the mechanisms by which the constitution of othered ‘natures’ as resources for visual consumption is normalised and made mundane, and
    2. Challenge human-nature binaries in ways that are still largely non-existent in non-/post-/more-than-human conceptions and evaluations of associated relations.

    Paula has an interdisciplinary background, encompassing both quantitative and qualitative approaches and methods, and is interested in how both societal change and stability are constituted. Understanding how to challenge habitual ways of thinking and acting about nonhuman animals are a central focus of her research.

    Education/Academic qualification

    Sociology, PhD, RMIT University

    5 Mar 2013 → 15 Oct 2018

    Award Date: 15 Oct 2018

    Environmental Science, MA, Monash University

    Jun 2002 → Feb 2005

    Award Date: 13 Oct 2005

    Geography and Environmental Science, MA, University of Edinburgh

    1989 → 1990

    Award Date: 12 Jul 1990

    Geography and Environmental Science, BA, University of Edinburgh

    1986 → 1990

    Award Date: 4 Sep 1989

    Other positions

    Research Officer, RMIT University

    Jul 2018 → Oct 2019

    Casual Research Assistant, RMIT University

    Mar 2013 → Jun 2018

    Researcher, RMIT University

    Nov 2009 → Mar 2013

    Campaign and Project Manager, ICLEI Oceania

    Nov 2005 → Jul 2009

    Casual Research Assistant, Monash University

    Mar 2002 → Oct 2005

    Jewellery designer and silversmith, Curtis Jewellers

    Apr 2001 → Feb 2002

    Voluntary Research Assistant (Climate Modelling), CSIRO

    Jan 2001 → Mar 2001

    Keywords

    • H Social Sciences
    • Animals
    • Critical Animal Studies
    • Social practice theories
    • Consumption
    • Cultural Studies
    • Foucault
    • Critical theory
    • Discourse analysis
    • G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
    • Human geography
    • Climate change
    • Environmental science
    • Sustainability

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