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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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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
Research Centres
- Centre for Human Animal Studies
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Research output
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Creating present futures for non-human animals: Vegan heterotopia as pathways to “the best of all possible worlds”
ARCARI, PAULA., 4 Feb 2022Research output: Other contribution
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To hell in a gift basket: The deceptions and dangers of corporate conservation and philanthrocapitalism
ARCARI, PAULA., 18 Feb 2022, onlineResearch output: Other contribution
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A lesson from Covid: Animal advocacy has a legitimacy problem: Deakin Critical Animal Studies Network. Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
ARCARI, PAULA., 25 Mar 2021Research output: Other contribution
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Covid as a reckoning for animal advocacy: Addressing the illegitimacy of critical animal perspectives and laying the groundwork for future ‘pivotal moments’
ARCARI, PAULA., 24 Jun 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Speech
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The visual consumption of animals: challenging persistent binaries
1/11/19 → 1/11/22
Project: Research
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Future Grid Homes
Strengers, Y., Nicholls, L., Glover, A., ARCARI, P. & Martin, R.
31/05/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Consultancy
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Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals: A critical exploration of the persistence of meat
5/03/15 → 4/04/18
Project: Research
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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
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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
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Anthropocentric economies and nonhuman colonisations: Exploring the loss of the 'wild' at the zoo, race carnival and agricultural show.
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
2 Jul 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Animals & Society Institute (External organisation)
PAULA ARCARI (Member)
2018 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of network
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Animals and Burning issues in Australian politics - Discussion panel
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
12 Oct 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Nonhuman ‘entanglements’ in lands and lifestyles of entitlement
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
12 Oct 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Human/nonhuman dis-entanglements for care-full more-than-human cities
PAULA ARCARI (Speaker)
15 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Prizes
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CHI 2019 Best Paper Award
Strenger, Y. (Recipient), Kennedy, J. (Recipient), ARCARI, PAULA (Recipient), Nicholls, L. (Recipient) & Greg, M. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Other distinction
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