Cassandra Hanrahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 7531057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Hanrahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanrahan |
| SIGNATURE | HANRAHAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1241-553X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Humaneness” and the capable animal: A proposal for a non-anthropocentric definition for the subjectivities and integrity of non-human animals
This work addresses language and how contested meanings of words provoke cognitive dissonance, favouring people within human-animal interactions. In this article, the authors unpack how language is a living dynamic system and suggest how words become embedded, rooted in, and, at the same time, inform cultural beliefs. This process reifies the varied cross-discipline views of what or, as we want to suggest, who is an animal. The authors go further…
The spirit in social work: Ecospirituality, holistic and sustainable social work practice
Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) in situ , relationship, and context: AAI as adjunct practice in healthcare and animal-informed education
Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) include and promote multisensory and somatic experiences in therapeutic, educational, and activity-based contexts. Sensory experiences, however, for animal co-workers and others in AAI practice, including the spaces in which AAI takes place, need further exploration not only to facilitate formalized animal and client safety in place-based contexts, but also to illuminate future directions for improved non-anth…
Recognizing Animals as an Important Part of Helping
The beneficial role of companion animals on human health and wellbeing across the life span is well documented in the rapidly expanding multi disciplinary body of literature known as human animal interactions (HAI). Social workers practice at the interface of people and their diverse environments. The presence of human animal bonds (HAB) within client systems, between people and companion animals in particular, are increasingly acknowledged and v…
Critical Social Theory and the Politics of Narrative in the Mental Health Professions: The Mental Health Film Festival as an Emerging Postmodern Praxis
Film festivals serving equity-seeking groups with their associated post-screening panel discussions have increasingly emerged within Western popular culture as discursive terrains where a range of cultural and specialist discourses are contested. As such, these events have the inherent potential for providing audience members with uncommon opportunities to become cultural producers of meaning relevant to their lives. While the same might be said …
Challenging Anthropocentricism in Social Work Through Ethics and Spirituality: Lessons from Studies in Human-Animal Bonds
During the process of teaching theoretical foundations in a Canadian school of social work, I sought to combine my teaching of critical anti-oppressive practice (AOP) with established ideas from the field of human-animal bonds (HAB) and from the spiritual experiences arising within my relationships to companion animals. This article addresses the challenges I confronted by identifying speciesism, a specific form of discrimination based on species…
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Challenging Anthropocentricism in Social Work Through Ethics and Spirituality: Lessons from Studies in Human-Animal Bonds
During the process of teaching theoretical foundations in a Canadian school of social work, I sought to combine my teaching of critical anti-oppressive practice (AOP) with established ideas from the field of human-animal bonds (HAB) and from the spiritual experiences arising within my relationships to companion animals. This article addresses the challenges I confronted by identifying speciesism, a specific form of discrimination based on species…
Critical Social Theory and the Politics of Narrative in the Mental Health Professions: The Mental Health Film Festival as an Emerging Postmodern Praxis
Film festivals serving equity-seeking groups with their associated post-screening panel discussions have increasingly emerged within Western popular culture as discursive terrains where a range of cultural and specialist discourses are contested. As such, these events have the inherent potential for providing audience members with uncommon opportunities to become cultural producers of meaning relevant to their lives. While the same might be said …
Recognizing Animals as an Important Part of Helping
The beneficial role of companion animals on human health and wellbeing across the life span is well documented in the rapidly expanding multi disciplinary body of literature known as human animal interactions (HAI). Social workers practice at the interface of people and their diverse environments. The presence of human animal bonds (HAB) within client systems, between people and companion animals in particular, are increasingly acknowledged and v…
Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) in situ , relationship, and context: AAI as adjunct practice in healthcare and animal-informed education
Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) include and promote multisensory and somatic experiences in therapeutic, educational, and activity-based contexts. Sensory experiences, however, for animal co-workers and others in AAI practice, including the spaces in which AAI takes place, need further exploration not only to facilitate formalized animal and client safety in place-based contexts, but also to illuminate future directions for improved non-anth…
“Humaneness” and the capable animal: A proposal for a non-anthropocentric definition for the subjectivities and integrity of non-human animals
This work addresses language and how contested meanings of words provoke cognitive dissonance, favouring people within human-animal interactions. In this article, the authors unpack how language is a living dynamic system and suggest how words become embedded, rooted in, and, at the same time, inform cultural beliefs. This process reifies the varied cross-discipline views of what or, as we want to suggest, who is an animal. The authors go further…
The spirit in social work: Ecospirituality, holistic and sustainable social work practice
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Social Work (3 works) · Anthropocentrism (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works)