Lauren E Van Patter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren E Van Patter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren E |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Patter |
| SIGNATURE | VAN PATTER L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5317-9484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Respecting and Suppressing Dogness: Perception and Response to Dog Companions’ Needs, Agency, and Differences
Domestic dogs are increasingly acknowledged as valued members of multispecies families, yet they often occupy a “liminal” status whereby they can both be loved and experience significant limitations to freedom that compromise welfare. This paper explores these tensions through a qualitative analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews with individuals living with dogs in Ontario, Canada. We discuss three key themes: 1) acknowledging dogs’ complex in…
Cripping Multispecies Care: Explorations of Disability, Ableism, and Speciesism in Multispecies Homes
Increasingly intersecting work in disability and animal studies reveals the interconnection of oppressive hierarchies and how these operate within and across species. This article extends such dialogues into the home, considering the ways that disability, ableism, and speciesism show up in multispecies care. Pulling from thematic analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews exploring dog-human caregiving practices, we argue that humans make sens…
Crazy Dog-Moms’? Gendering relational dynamics, carework, and pet parenting practices in multispecies Canadian homes
Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research
In this article, we reflect on the preparatory phase of a multispecies research project focused on dog-human care relationships. Playing with creative posthumanist methodologies that seek to decenter the human, we attached light-weight videorecording devices to our companion animals' collars. As we approach a dogs-eye view of our everyday lives and interactions, we think with Jacques Derrida to ask: What does it mean to respond when met with the …
Toward a More-Than-Human Everyday Urbanism: Rhythms and Sensoria in the Multispecies City
This article advances a more-than-human everyday urbanism as a useful analytic for articulating a less anthropocentric reading of the city. Using a case study of eastern coyotes (Canis latrans) in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, it draws on empirical data and ethological literatures to consider everyday life in multispecies cities through two registers: rhythms and sensoria. It first performs an experimental rhythmanalysis, demonstrating the im…
Individual animal geographies for the more-than-human city: Storying synanthropy and cynanthropy with urban coyotes
Recent efforts within geography to deconstruct anthropocentric readings of the urban and explore the city as 'multispecies' or 'more-than-human' face substantial methodological challenges. This paper contributes an empirical case study of human-coyote urban cohabitations in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, using a 'hybrid' methodological approach to individual animal geographies. It builds on dialogues surrounding animals' geographies that centr…
Advancing Ethical Principles for Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Nonhuman Animal Participants
Animal studies scholars are increasingly engaging with nonhuman animals firsthand to better understand their lifeworlds and interests. The current 3R framework is inadequate to guide respectful, non-invasive research relations that aim to encounter animals as meaningful participants and safeguard their well-being. This article responds to this gap by advancing ethical principles for research with animals guided by respect, justice, and reflexivit…
Trophy Hunters & Crazy Cat Ladies: Exploring cats and conservation in North America and Southern Africa through intersectionality
What explains the silencing, dismissal, disavowal, ridicule, and stigmatizing of care for individual animals observed in conservation discourses? We examine this question using a comparative case study of feral cat management in North America and lion conservation in southern Africa. We apply intersectionality to illustrate the ways in which hierarchies of scale (individual/population), knowledge (emotion/reason), and gender (feminine/masculine) …
Of place' or 'of people: Exploring the animal spaces and beastly places of feral cats in southern Ontario
Feral cats are contentious and transgressive, with opposing views on whether to classify them as abandoned pets, wild animals, or invasive species. Concerns about their welfare often conflict with fears that they are impacting native fauna. This paper presents the results of a case study of human–feral cat relations that took place in southern Ontario, Canada in 2014. This research investigates the discursive constructions of feral cats and their…
Of place' or 'of people: Exploring the animal spaces and beastly places of feral cats in southern Ontario
Feral cats are contentious and transgressive, with opposing views on whether to classify them as abandoned pets, wild animals, or invasive species. Concerns about their welfare often conflict with fears that they are impacting native fauna. This paper presents the results of a case study of human–feral cat relations that took place in southern Ontario, Canada in 2014. This research investigates the discursive constructions of feral cats and their…
Individual animal geographies for the more-than-human city: Storying synanthropy and cynanthropy with urban coyotes
Recent efforts within geography to deconstruct anthropocentric readings of the urban and explore the city as 'multispecies' or 'more-than-human' face substantial methodological challenges. This paper contributes an empirical case study of human-coyote urban cohabitations in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, using a 'hybrid' methodological approach to individual animal geographies. It builds on dialogues surrounding animals' geographies that centr…
Toward a More-Than-Human Everyday Urbanism: Rhythms and Sensoria in the Multispecies City
This article advances a more-than-human everyday urbanism as a useful analytic for articulating a less anthropocentric reading of the city. Using a case study of eastern coyotes (Canis latrans) in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, it draws on empirical data and ethological literatures to consider everyday life in multispecies cities through two registers: rhythms and sensoria. It first performs an experimental rhythmanalysis, demonstrating the im…
Trophy Hunters & Crazy Cat Ladies: Exploring cats and conservation in North America and Southern Africa through intersectionality
What explains the silencing, dismissal, disavowal, ridicule, and stigmatizing of care for individual animals observed in conservation discourses? We examine this question using a comparative case study of feral cat management in North America and lion conservation in southern Africa. We apply intersectionality to illustrate the ways in which hierarchies of scale (individual/population), knowledge (emotion/reason), and gender (feminine/masculine) …
Advancing Ethical Principles for Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Nonhuman Animal Participants
Animal studies scholars are increasingly engaging with nonhuman animals firsthand to better understand their lifeworlds and interests. The current 3R framework is inadequate to guide respectful, non-invasive research relations that aim to encounter animals as meaningful participants and safeguard their well-being. This article responds to this gap by advancing ethical principles for research with animals guided by respect, justice, and reflexivit…
Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research
In this article, we reflect on the preparatory phase of a multispecies research project focused on dog-human care relationships. Playing with creative posthumanist methodologies that seek to decenter the human, we attached light-weight videorecording devices to our companion animals' collars. As we approach a dogs-eye view of our everyday lives and interactions, we think with Jacques Derrida to ask: What does it mean to respond when met with the …
Of place' or 'of people: Exploring the animal spaces and beastly places of feral cats in southern Ontario
Feral cats are contentious and transgressive, with opposing views on whether to classify them as abandoned pets, wild animals, or invasive species. Concerns about their welfare often conflict with fears that they are impacting native fauna. This paper presents the results of a case study of human–feral cat relations that took place in southern Ontario, Canada in 2014. This research investigates the discursive constructions of feral cats and their…
Advancing Ethical Principles for Non-Invasive, Respectful Research with Nonhuman Animal Participants
Animal studies scholars are increasingly engaging with nonhuman animals firsthand to better understand their lifeworlds and interests. The current 3R framework is inadequate to guide respectful, non-invasive research relations that aim to encounter animals as meaningful participants and safeguard their well-being. This article responds to this gap by advancing ethical principles for research with animals guided by respect, justice, and reflexivit…
Trophy Hunters & Crazy Cat Ladies: Exploring cats and conservation in North America and Southern Africa through intersectionality
What explains the silencing, dismissal, disavowal, ridicule, and stigmatizing of care for individual animals observed in conservation discourses? We examine this question using a comparative case study of feral cat management in North America and lion conservation in southern Africa. We apply intersectionality to illustrate the ways in which hierarchies of scale (individual/population), knowledge (emotion/reason), and gender (feminine/masculine) …
Individual animal geographies for the more-than-human city: Storying synanthropy and cynanthropy with urban coyotes
Recent efforts within geography to deconstruct anthropocentric readings of the urban and explore the city as 'multispecies' or 'more-than-human' face substantial methodological challenges. This paper contributes an empirical case study of human-coyote urban cohabitations in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, using a 'hybrid' methodological approach to individual animal geographies. It builds on dialogues surrounding animals' geographies that centr…
Toward a More-Than-Human Everyday Urbanism: Rhythms and Sensoria in the Multispecies City
This article advances a more-than-human everyday urbanism as a useful analytic for articulating a less anthropocentric reading of the city. Using a case study of eastern coyotes (Canis latrans) in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, it draws on empirical data and ethological literatures to consider everyday life in multispecies cities through two registers: rhythms and sensoria. It first performs an experimental rhythmanalysis, demonstrating the im…
Looking Back With Logos the Cat: Unsettling the Gaze in Multispecies Research
In this article, we reflect on the preparatory phase of a multispecies research project focused on dog-human care relationships. Playing with creative posthumanist methodologies that seek to decenter the human, we attached light-weight videorecording devices to our companion animals' collars. As we approach a dogs-eye view of our everyday lives and interactions, we think with Jacques Derrida to ask: What does it mean to respond when met with the …
Respecting and Suppressing Dogness: Perception and Response to Dog Companions’ Needs, Agency, and Differences
Domestic dogs are increasingly acknowledged as valued members of multispecies families, yet they often occupy a “liminal” status whereby they can both be loved and experience significant limitations to freedom that compromise welfare. This paper explores these tensions through a qualitative analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews with individuals living with dogs in Ontario, Canada. We discuss three key themes: 1) acknowledging dogs’ complex in…
Cripping Multispecies Care: Explorations of Disability, Ableism, and Speciesism in Multispecies Homes
Increasingly intersecting work in disability and animal studies reveals the interconnection of oppressive hierarchies and how these operate within and across species. This article extends such dialogues into the home, considering the ways that disability, ableism, and speciesism show up in multispecies care. Pulling from thematic analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews exploring dog-human caregiving practices, we argue that humans make sens…
Crazy Dog-Moms’? Gendering relational dynamics, carework, and pet parenting practices in multispecies Canadian homes
Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropocentrism (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Flourishing (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)