Anat Pick (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University London)
Veganism for the Eyes Anat Pick is Reader in Film at Queen Mary University of London. She is author of Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (Berghahn, 2013), and Religion in Contemporary Thought and Cinema (Edinburgh, 2019). She has published widely on animals in film and vegan ethics. Anat’s current book project is on Simone Weil and film.
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Elisa Aaltola ( Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science, University of Turku)
The Moral Psychology and Paradoxes of “Animal Love” Elisa Aaltola is a philosopher, who has specialised in animal and environmental ethics, as well as moral psychology. She works at the University of Turku and is currently researching the influence of emotions on our treatment of nonhuman animals and nature. Aaltola has written numerous articles on the above themes, together with a number of Finnish monographs and edited volumes. In English, she has also written the books "Varieties of Empathy: Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics" (2018) and "Animal Suffering: Philosophy and Culture" (2012), and edited the volume "Animal Ethics and Philosophy: Questioning the Orthodoxy" (2014) with John Hadley. Her English blog can be found at www.philosophyhounds.com
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Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics and INRAE, University Toulouse Capitole)
Behavioral Economics and Animal Welfare Nicolas Treich is researcher at Toulouse School of Economics and INRAe. He has worked on decision theory and other fields such as environmental economics, behavioral economics, and benefit-cost analysis. More recently, his research has focused on the economics of animal welfare. He has written economic papers on the “meat paradox”, the link between veganism and antispeciesism, animal advocacy NGOs’ strategies, the externalities and regulation of meat consumption and cultured meat.
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Steve Loughnan (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Steve Loughnan is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. His research examines the psychology behind eating animals, in particular the ways in which omnivores sustain their meat consumption and barriers to dietary change. His current work focuses on interventions to increase adherence to vegetarian and vegan diets
The Psychology of Veganism and Barriers to a Vegan Diet |
Emelia Quinn (English Language and Culture group, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam)
Vegan Aesthetics Emelia Quinn is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to this post she received her DPhil in English from the University of Oxford. She is co-editor of Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and her most recent work, “Notes on Vegan Camp,” is published in PMLA (2020). Her monograph Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (September 2021).
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Silvia Panizza (School of Philosophy, University College Dublin)
How to Make a Vegan: Attention, Motivation, and Action Silvia is currently Teaching and research fellow at the School of Philosophy, University College
Dublin. She is a member of UCD’s Centre for Ethics in Public Life and of the Horizon 2020 Project PERITIA (Policy, Expertise and Trust in Experts). Her research focuses on moral psychology, meta ethics, and animal and environmental ethics. She is currently working on a jointly edited volume on Iris Murdoch and on a monograph on the ethics of attention in Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil. In the autumn of 2021 she will start a Marie Curie project on ‘moral impossibility. Since 2018 she coordinates the Vegan Studies Network, an international academic group that aims to develop shared research, teaching and public engagement on the question of how to think of a world without animal exploitation |
Simone Pollo (Department of Philosophy, Università La Sapienza, Rome)
A Humean Vegetarianism Simone Pollo is MA in Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome (1995) and PhD in Bioethics at the University of Genoa (2001). He is currently Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome, where teaches “Ethics and Life Sciences” and “Bioethics” and is a member of the board of the PhD program in Philosophy. In the past he took part to EU funded research projects on the ethics of animal research. He is regularly invited as visiting professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego of Warsaw. His research interests are animal ethics, the philosophy of animal minds, the biological foundations of morality, environmental ethics and David Hume and the philosophy of Scottish Enlightement.
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Tony Milligan (Cosmological Visionaries project, King’s College London)
Gaining Concepts: Vegan Appropriations of Ahimsa Tony Milligan is senior researcher in the Philosophy of Ethics with the Cosmological Visionaries project, based out of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London. Publications include Pravda v době populismu/Truth in a Time of Populism (2019); Animal Ethics: the Basics, (2015); the co-edited volume Love and its Objects (2014); Civil Disobedience: Protest, Justification and the Law (2013); Love (2011); and Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics (2010).
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Alka Arora (California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Program in Women, Gender, Spirituality and Social Justice, San Francisco, CA)
Shifting Pedagogical Paradigms: Veganism and Social Justice Education Alka Arora, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender, Spirituality and Social Justice at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA. Her scholarship is focused on three interrelated areas of inquiry: feminist spiritual activism, vegan ecofeminism, and transformative pedagogy. Vegan since 2013, she is committed to the inclusion of the more-than-human world in feminist discourse, teaching, and activism.
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Benedikt Namdar (University of Graz)
Vulnerability as a marker of moral status and moral standing My name is Benedikt, I am a philosopher from Graz, Austria. I am mostly interested in the ethics of climate change, normative ethics, and applied ethics conceived more broadly. I have also been a vegan since 2015, and therefore I am very happy to be a part of this conference!"
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Bjorn Freter (Independent Scholar)
Veganism as a Part of an Anti-Oppressive Way of Life Björn Freter received his doctorate with his thesis »On Facticity and Existentiality« in 2014 from Free University, Berlin, Germany. He is now working as an Independent Scholar based in Knoxville, TN, USA. His research fields include political philosophy, African philosophy, animal ethics, phenomenology of normativity and literary studies, his current main research project aims at the Desuperiorization of philosophy, ie. developing a radically anti-oppressive moral philosophy
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Carmen Krämer (Chair for Applied Ethics, RWTH Aachen, Germany, Department of Philosophy/Human Technology Center)
“Animal” as a problem of “animal” ethics Carmen Krämer, Ph.D., is a philosopher and research assistant at the Chair for Theory of Science and Technology at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Her research interest lies on applied ethics and here especially on media ethics, animal ethics, consumer ethics and environmental ethics. Together with Prof. Simone Paganini and Prof. Wulf Kellerwessel she founded the Centre of Human-Animal Studies Aachen (CHASA).
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Catherine Brown (Head of English and Associate Professor in English, New College of the Humanities at Northeastern, London)
D.H. Lawrence: Proto-Vegan? Dr. Catherine Brown is Associate Professor of English and Head of English Faculty at New College of the Humanities at Northeastern (London). Her research is mainly in the fields of Lawrence studies, Anglo-Russian relations and vegan literary studies. She is a Vice-President of the Lawrence Society, and in 2020 co-edited with Susan Reid The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts. She recently wrote the chapter on ‘Modernism’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies, forthcoming 2022.
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Chiara Stefanoni (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bergamo)
"Nutritional Transition as Dietary Dispositif: an Inquiry on the Advent of Meat-Based Diet in the Nineteenth-Century West" Chiara Stefanoni holds a master’s degree in philosophy and is about to complete her doctoral degree in “Transcultural Studies in Humanities” at the University of Bergamo. Her main research interests fall within the critical animal studies and her PhD dissertation focuses on animal oppression in capitalist societies. In 2019 she was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Animal Ethics at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. She is a member of the editorial board of the antispeciesist journal Liberazioni
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David Krantz (IGERT Solar Utilization Network Fellow, School of Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University)
The Shmita Vegan: Equality Between Humans and Fellow Animals in Judaism’s Sabbatical Year David Krantz is a doctoral candidate at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, where he researches the intersection of environmental issues and culture, often through the lens of religion. He has published on environmental media, faith-based environmentalism and environmental activism. He is also a member of the board of directors of Interfaith Moral Action on Climate; a cofounder of Interfaith Oceans; and the president and cofounder of Aytzim: Ecological Judaism, an all-volunteer Jewish-environmental nonprofit.
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Ela Przybylo (Illinois State University) and Leyna Lowe (Unaffiliated)
Hard, Fast, Masc: Vegan Masculinities on Instagram Dr. Ela Przybyło is Assistant Professor in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Illinois State University and holds a PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University. She is the author of Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (Ohio State University Press, 2019), editor of On the Politics of Ugliness (Palgrave, 2018), and author of many peer-reviewed articles and chapters including in such journals as Feminist Formations, GLQ, and Radical Teacher. She is a practicing vegan and founding editor of Feral Feminisms.
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Friederike Zenker (Research Assistant at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images, University of Basel (CH), Singular Animals)
Singular Animals Towards Epistemic Justice in Human-Animal Relations Friederike Zenker is a research associate at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of Images at the University of Basel. She has completed a doctorate in philosophy and film studies in 2020. Her research focuses on moral philosophy and image theory with a deep interest in animal ethics. During her doctorate, she was a stipendiary at eikones, visiting scholar at the UPF Center for Animal Ethics in Barcelona, and lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in Basel.
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Giovanni Fava (MA student in Philosophical Sciences at University of Bologna)
Another look at the naturalistic fallacy: on some ecological aspects of Philippe Descola’s anthropology I am Giovanni Fava, graduate student, (MA) in Philosophical Sciences at University of Bologna. I wrote my master’s thesis, dedicated to the relationship between history and nature in Alexandre Kojève and Maurice-Merleau-Ponty’s philosophies, under the supervision of Prof. Manlio Iofrida (co-supervisor: Dr. Paolo Missiroli). My interests spam between philosophy of history and nature, political ecology, the contemporary theorization of the concept of Anthropocene and anthropology of nature, with a special reference to the work of Philippe Descola.
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Jantsje M. Mol (University of Amsterdam – Center for Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED)) and Dr. Meike H. Morren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – School of Business and Economics)
Exploring reasons for resistance towards a plant-based diet through text analysis. I am a postdoctoral researcher at CREED at the University of Amsterdam. I have a research master in Neuroeconomics from Maastricht University and a PhD in behavioral economics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My research examines interventions to improve individual decision-making related to the environment (e.g. disaster preparedness, sustainable diets). I use experimental economics methods, including lab experiments, field experiments and virtual reality experiments
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Jemma Deer (Researcher in Residence, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society)
Meating Alice: Food and Friends in Wonderland Jemma Deer (@geowrites) is currently Researcher-in-Residence at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, and previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. She works at the intersection of literary studies and the environmental humanities. Her first book, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World is published by Bloomsbury. She co-hosts EcoCast, the official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
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Joshua Lopez (Department of History, University of North Texas)
Aquí No Tiramos Nada: The History of a (Vegan) Chicano Cook I am a PhD student in the department of History at the University of North Texas. My research areas are in food studies, Latinx/Chicanx studies, and oral history. I also conduct interviews and write for El Paso Food Voices, a digital project that features home cooks and professional chefs from across El Paso’s diverse foodscapes.
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Joshua Tasoff (Claremont Graduate University)
Changing Hearts and Plates: The Effect of Animal-Advocacy Pamphlets on Meat Consumption Joshua Tasoff is an associate professor in Claremont Graduate University’s Department of Economic Sciences. His research focus is in behavioral economics, a subfield of economics that focuses on enriching economic analysis with psychology. He works on a diverse topics including “veganomics”, information preferences, beliefs, and retirement savings. He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and his SB from MIT.
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Konstantin Deininger (School of Philosophy, Munich University)
Co-authors: Herwig Grimm and Andreas Aigner Is it Morally Certain that it is Wrong to Kill and Eat Other Animals for Food? Konstantin Deininger is currently working on his dissertation about the notion of the fellow creature as to be found in animal ethics and moral philosophy. His research interest also extends to the ethics of food. Konstantin Deininger is PhD student at the Munich School of Philosophy and visiting scholar at the Unit of Ethics and Human-Animal-Studies, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna.
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Lisa Barca (Senior Lecturer and Honors Faculty Fellow, Barrett, The Honors College Arizona State University)
Their Bodies, Our “Choice”?: Toward an Ecofeminist, Anti-Capitalist, Envisioning of a Vegan Paradigm Shift Lisa Barca is a senior lecturer at the Barrett Honors College of Arizona State University, where she teaches humanities seminars and courses on the animal ethics. Her current research critiques journalistic representations of veganism and of nonhuman animals, exposing how speciesist ideology and capitalist media obscure truthful representations of nonhumans and those committed to their liberation. She is also the lead vocalist, guitarist, and main songwriter of all-vegan punk band Scarlet Rescue.
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Lynda Korimboccus (Independent Scholar (Sociology), Scotland, UK)
Animal Representations on Children’s TV: The Peppa Pig Paradox’ and Other Mixed Media Messages An activist scholar, Lynda has been a committed ethical vegan and grassroots campaigner since 1999. A PhD Sociology candidate, she holds an MA in Anthrozoology as well as undergraduate degrees in Philosophy, Politics, Social Psychology and Sociology. Lynda’s first paper, 'The Peppa Pig Paradox’, was published in the Journal for Critical Animal Studies in 2020, and she has taught Sociology and other Social Sciences at West Lothian College, Scotland, for 14 years
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Maria Eugênia Zanchet (Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universität Bayreuth)
Green Narratives and the Limits of Practical Identity |
Maria Eugênia Zanchet (MA) is a doctoral student at the Universität Bayreuth, Germany, in Philosophy and Economics Department. In her research, she inquires aspects of ethical decision-making in Kant's moral psychology. Normative ethics, theories of emotion, and topics of cognitive philosophy are some of her interest areas.
Luis Enrique Arbeláez-Orozco (Universidad Externado de Colombia)
Luis Enrique Arbeláez-Orozco was born in Colombia and currently lives in Spain. He is an engineer with extensive experience in regulation and operation of electricity markets. In addition, he has experience in financial investment analysis and electrical business management. Now he is dedicated to specialized maintenance of electrical distribution networks and is interested in deeply investigating the environmental impacts of the industry and its relationship with climate change.
Luis Enrique Arbeláez-Orozco (Universidad Externado de Colombia)
Luis Enrique Arbeláez-Orozco was born in Colombia and currently lives in Spain. He is an engineer with extensive experience in regulation and operation of electricity markets. In addition, he has experience in financial investment analysis and electrical business management. Now he is dedicated to specialized maintenance of electrical distribution networks and is interested in deeply investigating the environmental impacts of the industry and its relationship with climate change.
Margarita Nieves-Zárate (Faculty of Law, University of Groningen) and Luis Enrique Aebeláez-Orózco (Universidad Externado de Colombia)
Deconstructing Cowspiracy: The Linkages Between Livestock and Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton)
Vegan satire Nicole Seymour works at the intersection of environmental studies and queer studies. She is the author of two monographs, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013) and Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). She is Associate Professor of English at California State University, Fullerton and, currently, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
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Paige Colton (Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University)
The Fear of Holism, Fluidity and Decreation: Misguided notions of Personal Identity as Static. I have recently completed an undergraduate in philosophy and will begin a philosophy MA soon. My predominant areas of interest are Ecofeminism, Ecology, Epistemic Injustice, Embodiment, and Simone Weil.
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Samantha Hind (School of English, University of Sheffield)
“We’ve Made Meat for Everyone!”: Edible Flesh in Joseph D’Lacey’s Meat (2008) Samantha Hind is a WRoCAH-funded PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield. Her research explores the construction of flesh as a facilitator for human and animal indistinction in contemporary speculative fiction, questioning what it means to both be and eat flesh. She has a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection Interrogating Boundaries: Writing the Nonhuman amidst Environmental Crises. She is also a member of Sheffield Animal studies Research Centre (ShARC).
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Sarah Burton (PhD candidate in Sociology, Nottingham Trent University)
Becoming Vegan: a sociological exploration of vegan identities and practices Sarah Burton is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests centre around identity theory, veganism, and the sociology of the everyday. Sarah’s previous research studies have explored the nature of intersectional identities and the manifestations of these identities in the site of the everyday. She is in her second year of her doctoral research project which is entitled: ‘Becoming-vegan: a sociological exploration into vegan identities’.
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Serrin Rutledge-Prior (PhD Candidate, School of Politics & International Relations | College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University | Canberra ACT Australia)
Green-collared crime or political protest? The framing of animal activism in public discourse. Serrin Rutledge-Prior is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University in the School of Politics and International Relations. Her thesis focuses on how animals can be better protected by the legal system. Her research interests include animal and environmental rights, the history of political thought, and Australian politics. She is also a volunteer Research Officer with the Animal Defenders Office, a nationally accredited community legal centre based in Canberra, Australia, which focuses on animal law-related issues.
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Silvina Pezzetta (CONICET, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, Argentina, UBA Law School, Argentina)
The feral pigeon's case: putting in crisis classical animal rights theories I am an Adjunct Researcher at CONICET (Argentina). My field is animal rights and animal ethics. Currently, I am working on the extension of key legal concepts and classical problems of legal philosophy to reject speciesism in the legal realm. I have been vegan for almost 9 years and have participated in pro bono in legal cases. I have a strong interest in exploring the possibilities and richness of the Global South to contribute to the end of oppression of all sentient beings. I rescue street pigeons and find this species especially neglected, as long as other urban animals, in the animal rights bibliography. I hope to contribute to this topic.
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Susan Haris (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
Vegetarianism in Multicultural Societies: A Performative Bind Susan Haris is a doctoral candidate in literature and philosophy at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. She is a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship awardee for the year 2021-22 and a Culture and Animals Foundation grantee. Her research explores multispecies possibilities in India in the context of the Anthropocene.
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Vasile Stănescu (Ph.D., he/him/his, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies & Theatre, Mercer University)
Breaking The Glass Wall: Images of Violence Against Animals, Humane Meat, and the “Repressive Hypothesis” Vasile Stanescu is Associate Professor of Communication at Mercer University. Stanescu is co-editor of the Critical Animal Studies book series published by Rodopi/Brill, the co-founder of the North American Association for Critical Animal Studies (NAACAS), the former member of the editor collective for the Journal for Critical Animal Studies, and former co-organizer of the Stanford Environmental Humanities Project. Stanescu is the author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications on the critical study of animals and the environment. These include publications in the American Behavioral Scientist, Liberazioni – Rivista di critica antispecista [Liberations-Anti-Specieist Criticisms], Journal fürkritische Tierstudien [The German Journal for Critical Animal Studies], The Journal of American Culture, Animal Studies Journal, and the Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Stanescu’s research has been recognized by The Woods Institute for the Environment, Minding Animals International, The Andrew Mel
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Wayne Williams (Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, University of Hull)
And Then We’ll Come from the Shadows: On the Potential but Debate-able Merit of an Agonistic Account of Veganism Wayne Williams is based at the University of Hull, United Kingdom, where he is an Associate Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics and a senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Studies. He has taught Philosophy, political philosophy and ethics at the University since 1998 and his primary research interests are in metaethics, nonhuman animal and environmental philosophy, and in critical terrorism studies.
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Zeynep Gizem Haspolat (Anthropology, Rice University)
The Limits of the Unthinkable: On Human Slavery as an Analogy to the Exploitation of Nonhuman Animals Gizem Haspolat is a PhD candidate in the department of Anthropology at Rice University. She is interested in human – nonhuman animal relations, critical animal studies and animal geographies. Her current research explores live animal trade as a site that intensifies the translations between ‘animal’ and capital, through an ethnographic investigation of live cattle imports in Turkey. Prior to this, she earned a BA and a MA from the Sociology Department at Bogazici University.
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