Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
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:
- Examine the mechanisms by which the constitution of othered ‘natures’ as resources for visual consumption is normalised and made mundane, and
- 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 2019Casual Research Assistant, RMIT University
Mar 2013 → Jun 2018Researcher, RMIT University
Nov 2009 → Mar 2013Campaign and Project Manager, ICLEI Oceania
Nov 2005 → Jul 2009Casual Research Assistant, Monash University
Mar 2002 → Oct 2005Jewellery designer and silversmith, Curtis Jewellers
Apr 2001 → Feb 2002Voluntary Research Assistant (Climate Modelling), CSIRO
Jan 2001 → Mar 2001Keywords
- 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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Research Output
COVID-19 shows why we need to ‘cease and desist’ from commodifying animals
ARCARI, PAULA., 11 Apr 2020, Medium, Age of Awareness.Research output: Other contribution
Disconnection & Demonisation: COVID-19 shows why we need to stop commodifying all animals
ARCARI, PAULA., 13 May 2020Research output: Other contribution
File
Where Species Don't Meet: Invisibilised animals, urban nature and city limits
ARCARI, PAULA., Probyn-Rapsey, F. & Singer, H., 7 Jul 2020, In : Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. EPE-20-034.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Book Review: Media and Food Industries: The New Politics of Food
ARCARI, PAULA., 1 Jan 2019, In : Media Industries. 6, 1, p. 165-172 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
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Engaging households towards the Future Grid: An Engagement Strategy for the Energy Sector
Strengers, Y., NIcholls, L., Glover, A., ARCARI, PAULA. & Martin, R., Jul 2019, Melbourne: Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne. 64 p.Research output: Book/Report › Project report
Projects
The visual consumption of animals: challenging persistent binaries
1/11/19 → 1/11/22
Project: Research
Future Grid Homes
Strengers, Y., Nicholls, L., Glover, A., ARCARI, P. & Martin, R.
31/05/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Consultancy
Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals: A critical exploration of the persistence of meat
5/03/15 → 4/04/18
Project: Research
Living change: Adaptive housing responses to climate change in the town camps of Alice Springs
Horne, R., Martel, A., ARCARI, P., Foster, D. & McCormack, A.
5/01/12 → 21/12/12
Project: Research
Resilient Urban Systems: a socio-technical study of community scale climate change adaptation initiatives
Horne, R., Strengers, Y., Ryan, C., ARCARI, P., Maller, C., Biggs, C., Ahmed, I. & Setunge, S.
1/06/10 → 1/06/12
Project: Research
Activities
Anthropocentric economies and nonhuman colonisations: Exploring the loss of the 'wild' at the zoo, race carnival and agricultural show.
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
2 Jul 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Nonhuman ‘entanglements’ in lands and lifestyles of entitlement
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
12 Oct 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Human/nonhuman dis-entanglements for care-full more-than-human cities
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
15 Jun 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Animals and Burning issues in Australian politics - Discussion panel
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
12 Oct 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Animals & Society Institute (External organisation)
PAULA ARCARI (Member)
2018 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
Prizes
CHI 2019 Best Paper Award
Yolande Strenger (Recipient), Jenny Kennedy (Recipient), ARCARI, PAULA (Recipient), Larissa Nicholls (Recipient) & Melissa Greg (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Other distinction