Catherine Oliver
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3730749 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Catherine Oliver |
| PRENOMES | Catherine |
| SOBRENOME | Oliver |
| ASSINATURA | OLIVER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5332-0468 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Geographies of nothingness
To write anything about nothingness is to risk robbing it of what defines it: its non-existence. To stay true to nothingness, we would need to submit our Introduction to this Special Issue on ‘Geog
Metabolo-politics
More-than-human metabolic processes increasingly constitute the locus of contemporary biopower, often responding to industrially-altered biogeochemical cycles. We conceptualise ‘metabolo-politics’ to examine the targeting of bodies and populations via interventions in the biochemical surroundings and ecologies that shape them; and simultaneously, the administration and modulation of materials in the environment via interventions in the bodies and…
Online resources and educational materials relating to autism spectrum disorder
Objective: To evaluate the quality, understandability, actionability and readability of English-language Internet-based resources about autism spectrum disorder. Design: Cross-sectional observational study evaluating the quality, accountability, understandability, actionability and readability of English-language Internet-based resources related to autism spectrum disorder. Setting: The study was conducted using publicly available webpages access…
Indigenous People(s), Knowledges, and the future of landscape research
In this article, Joaquín Lopez-Huertas brings the reader to Bear Ears National Monument through the company of a poem by Leonard Lee, whose stanzas structure a discussion of the challenges faced by
The birds of the Bay
In Morecambe Bay, the landscape is created in mutuality with non-human life, most notably experienced through temporal and seasonal changes in its avian residents. However, Morecambe Bay’s relationship with seabirds is increasingly under threat from the climate crisis. In this paper, I argue that the Bay’s avian inhabitants are critical to understanding how this ever-changing landscape is shaped by – and in turn shapes – more-than-human life. Dra…
Do Species Meet? Antagonizing Interspecies Relationality Through Textual “Encounters
Artists, writers, and filmmakers have long told animal stories through novel mediums, capturing a part of the animals while never fully incorporating them. This, for better or for worse, allows multiple representations of animals. Much of academia, however, remains attached to rigid and somatophobic modes of research. In this vignette, we explore how it is more vital than ever to interrogate our own and our colleagues’ intentions and consequences…
Byproductive limits and bits of animal life
In this paper, we argue that animal geography should extend its limits and analyses to the fragmented ‘byproducts’ and ‘bits of life’ that are made from animals. In so doing, we argue that a ‘byproductive lens’ is vital to an animal geography in the face of multiple and overlapping ecological crises. The paper opens by theorising byproductive animals and bits of life as increasingly important in the context of emerging biotechnologies. Drawing on…
Dancing with foxes
Urban chicken‐keeping is on the rise in London, in private gardens, community gardens, allotments, schools, and urban farm projects. In welcoming chickens into the city, urban spaces are being transformed: coops are being built, runs constructed, chicken‐friendly flora introduced, and space landscaped to accommodate both chickens and humans. Underneath the design of these multispecies urban spaces, there is a desire to bring the good life into th…
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production
Chickens have become emblematic of the Anthropocene: They embody the age of acceleration, (post-) industrial value, and intensification in scientific and technological knowledge and practice. Contemporary chickens are the bearers of significant genetic and nutritional knowledge, experimented upon and ‘tweaked’ so much so that some have denied that contemporary commercial chickens are chickens at all. This article reconsiders chickens through a me…
Archives beyond the Human
This article reflects on what it might mean to think about archives “beyond” the human, specifically in relation to animals and their archives. Interdisciplinary and disciplinary “animal turns” have brought animals into social science and humanities spaces—as both subjects and collaborators. In archival research and studies, encounters with animals, and more broadly nonhumans, both complicate and extend contemporary debates: on how we research in…
Unfamiliar Archives
This article documents the roundtable “Unfamiliar Archives,” which took place as part of a two-day event to mark twenty years of Cultural Politics. Drawing from a range of “archives in the making” related to activists, artists, social theorists, and digital media practices, the participants reflect on the political, ethical, and epistemological provocations offered by their specific archival encounters. In particular, the participants reflect on …
Claiming veganism and vegan geographies
A decade ago, veganism was a fringe radical movement. It was also largely absent from the geographical discipline, despite a rich history of vegan scholarship being present in disciplines such as Sociology and Psychology. However, veganism has recently seen a surge in popularity, with more people than ever before becoming vegan for a mixture of animal welfare, environmental, and health-based reasons. With this mainstreaming, veganism has become c…
Climate Cattle
Scientific measurement and prediction tools have highlighted the significant greenhouse gas contributions of farmed animals, particularly dairy and meat cows. Emergent analysis and associated political discourse have refigured narratives of blame for the contemporary climate crisis, influencing international policy and inspiring a range of technological and economic fixes to construct "climate cattle" as keystone species for a "good Anthropocene.…
Nature, with Catherine Oliver
It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what’s at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she considers what happens when neoliberalism shapes what “good” nature is – whether in regeneration or m…
Transforming paradise
In Birmingham, a badger visits me each evening outside my front door. Five years later, a fox meets me on a city street at 5 am. Two years after that, walking along the city’s canals, my eyes lock with a heron’s. A year later, a eucalyptus tree becomes my shade and respite in a disturbed city. Months later, as I get ready to leave the city, I encounter a group of parakeets. In this paper, I ask how these seemingly disparate encounters and relatio…
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives
Veganism's visibility has soared in recent years. Contemporary veganism has built a trident approach of outreach that emphasises health benefits, ethical concerns about animals, and environmentally sustainable consumption. With this growth, there have been opportunities for influencer-activists to profit from positioning themselves as movement leaders. This is often connected with thin, white, wealthy women and the wellness industry, but there is…
Vegan world-making in meat-centric society
The question of the human body – whose matters, where, when, and how much – has long been of concern in geographical thinking. Vegan geographies pose a challenge to this ‘body,’ bringing in critical concerns for and about animal bodies. In this paper, interviews with vegans based in Britain are used to discuss the role of the body and embodiment in veganism, a social, cultural and political movement that has been relatively under-studied in geogr…
Rising with the rooster
The Opposite of Extinction
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”
Academic conferences have a central role in shaping career trajectories, reproducing or resisting exclusions and moulding relations in and to academia, thus shaping academic networks. In this paper, we consider how precarious academics subvert and navigate conference spaces, including emerging online forms. Particularly, we explore how academic conferences generate and nurture friendship as an enduring political practice that undermines neolibera…
Significant nothingness” in geographical fieldwork
Sharing the Field
The "field" has long been contested as spatially and temporally bounded. Feminist epistemologies have re-imagined and engaged field/work as shared, messy and co-constitutive, while critical more-than-human methodologies in the transdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities are further expanding our understanding of who and what counts in the production of knowledge in the field. This compendium article orbits around a collective concern …
Beyond‐human ethics
In this paper, I investigate how the development of ethics and methods in beyond human and posthuman research have largely been ignored within institutional ethical frameworks. Specifically, I argue that the ethical review process for research needs critical consideration in light of emerging multispecies methodologies. The inclusion and consideration of animals in geography should go further than “bringing animals in” to the discipline; instead …
Introduction to the urban ecologies open collection
This Open Collection proposes innovative research directions for both urban and beyond/more-than-/non-human geographies with animals. We are seeking papers for this Open Collection across three themes: (1) methods; (2) ethics and politics; and (3) planning and design. Specifically, we are interested in papers that pose questions of and reflect upon emergent tensions in researching with urban animals in each of these themes. This Open Collection a…
Complaint
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives
Veganism's visibility has soared in recent years. Contemporary veganism has built a trident approach of outreach that emphasises health benefits, ethical concerns about animals, and environmentally sustainable consumption. With this growth, there have been opportunities for influencer-activists to profit from positioning themselves as movement leaders. This is often connected with thin, white, wealthy women and the wellness industry, but there is…
Sharing the Field
The "field" has long been contested as spatially and temporally bounded. Feminist epistemologies have re-imagined and engaged field/work as shared, messy and co-constitutive, while critical more-than-human methodologies in the transdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities are further expanding our understanding of who and what counts in the production of knowledge in the field. This compendium article orbits around a collective concern …
Vegan world-making in meat-centric society
The question of the human body – whose matters, where, when, and how much – has long been of concern in geographical thinking. Vegan geographies pose a challenge to this ‘body,’ bringing in critical concerns for and about animal bodies. In this paper, interviews with vegans based in Britain are used to discuss the role of the body and embodiment in veganism, a social, cultural and political movement that has been relatively under-studied in geogr…
(Dis-)Belonging bodies
Historically, universities have centred around white-ness and masculinity, meaning that people who do not belong to these groups navigate academic spaces as ‘outsiders’. We position the conference as an important site for understanding the implications of outsider-ness, and the impact of this on early career academics and on the reproduction of exclusionary practices. The conference demands different performances and disciplining of bodies to adh…
Significant nothingness” in geographical fieldwork
Climate Cattle
Scientific measurement and prediction tools have highlighted the significant greenhouse gas contributions of farmed animals, particularly dairy and meat cows. Emergent analysis and associated political discourse have refigured narratives of blame for the contemporary climate crisis, influencing international policy and inspiring a range of technological and economic fixes to construct "climate cattle" as keystone species for a "good Anthropocene.…
Returning to 'The Good Life'? Chickens and Chicken-keeping during Covid-19 in Britain
Through the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, humans have been exposed to the threat that the exploitation and eating of animals poses to humanity and public health. It has also become obvious that animals want to and are willing to take up more space. In the relative absence of humans during lockdown, animal populations have spread out and some have entered cities and towns for the first time. At the same time, humans have chosen to bring animals…
Dancing with foxes
Urban chicken‐keeping is on the rise in London, in private gardens, community gardens, allotments, schools, and urban farm projects. In welcoming chickens into the city, urban spaces are being transformed: coops are being built, runs constructed, chicken‐friendly flora introduced, and space landscaped to accommodate both chickens and humans. Underneath the design of these multispecies urban spaces, there is a desire to bring the good life into th…
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production
Chickens have become emblematic of the Anthropocene: They embody the age of acceleration, (post-) industrial value, and intensification in scientific and technological knowledge and practice. Contemporary chickens are the bearers of significant genetic and nutritional knowledge, experimented upon and ‘tweaked’ so much so that some have denied that contemporary commercial chickens are chickens at all. This article reconsiders chickens through a me…
Transforming paradise
In Birmingham, a badger visits me each evening outside my front door. Five years later, a fox meets me on a city street at 5 am. Two years after that, walking along the city’s canals, my eyes lock with a heron’s. A year later, a eucalyptus tree becomes my shade and respite in a disturbed city. Months later, as I get ready to leave the city, I encounter a group of parakeets. In this paper, I ask how these seemingly disparate encounters and relatio…
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”
Academic conferences have a central role in shaping career trajectories, reproducing or resisting exclusions and moulding relations in and to academia, thus shaping academic networks. In this paper, we consider how precarious academics subvert and navigate conference spaces, including emerging online forms. Particularly, we explore how academic conferences generate and nurture friendship as an enduring political practice that undermines neolibera…
Introduction to the urban ecologies open collection
This Open Collection proposes innovative research directions for both urban and beyond/more-than-/non-human geographies with animals. We are seeking papers for this Open Collection across three themes: (1) methods; (2) ethics and politics; and (3) planning and design. Specifically, we are interested in papers that pose questions of and reflect upon emergent tensions in researching with urban animals in each of these themes. This Open Collection a…
The birds of the Bay
In Morecambe Bay, the landscape is created in mutuality with non-human life, most notably experienced through temporal and seasonal changes in its avian residents. However, Morecambe Bay’s relationship with seabirds is increasingly under threat from the climate crisis. In this paper, I argue that the Bay’s avian inhabitants are critical to understanding how this ever-changing landscape is shaped by – and in turn shapes – more-than-human life. Dra…
Archives beyond the Human
This article reflects on what it might mean to think about archives “beyond” the human, specifically in relation to animals and their archives. Interdisciplinary and disciplinary “animal turns” have brought animals into social science and humanities spaces—as both subjects and collaborators. In archival research and studies, encounters with animals, and more broadly nonhumans, both complicate and extend contemporary debates: on how we research in…
Unfamiliar Archives
This article documents the roundtable “Unfamiliar Archives,” which took place as part of a two-day event to mark twenty years of Cultural Politics. Drawing from a range of “archives in the making” related to activists, artists, social theorists, and digital media practices, the participants reflect on the political, ethical, and epistemological provocations offered by their specific archival encounters. In particular, the participants reflect on …
Claiming veganism and vegan geographies
A decade ago, veganism was a fringe radical movement. It was also largely absent from the geographical discipline, despite a rich history of vegan scholarship being present in disciplines such as Sociology and Psychology. However, veganism has recently seen a surge in popularity, with more people than ever before becoming vegan for a mixture of animal welfare, environmental, and health-based reasons. With this mainstreaming, veganism has become c…
The Opposite of Extinction
Cpb Update
News| November 01 1984 Cpb Update Catherine Oliver Catherine Oliver Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1984) 12 (4): 5. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1984.12.4.5a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catherine Oliver; Cpb Update. Afterimage …
Still a Photo Division
News| November 01 1984 Still a Photo Division? Catherine Oliver Catherine Oliver Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1984) 12 (4): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1984.12.4.3a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catherine Oliver; Still a Ph…
Omb Advocacy Rule Takes Effect
News| October 01 1984 Omb Advocacy Rule Takes Effect Catherine Oliver Catherine Oliver Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1984) 12 (3): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1984.12.3.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catherine Oliver; Omb A…
Birmingham Bog outdoor laboratory
Providing cost-effective, hands-on field-based experiences to large cohorts of undergraduate students provides a core challenge for effective teaching and learning. This grand challenge is tackled through the construction of an exemplar outdoor learning environment within the Environmental Change Outdoor Laboratory (ECOLAB): Birmingham Bog (BB). Adjacent to the Geography building, the facility aims to produce a seamless, interconnected learning e…
(Dis-)Belonging bodies
Historically, universities have centred around white-ness and masculinity, meaning that people who do not belong to these groups navigate academic spaces as ‘outsiders’. We position the conference as an important site for understanding the implications of outsider-ness, and the impact of this on early career academics and on the reproduction of exclusionary practices. The conference demands different performances and disciplining of bodies to adh…
Carceral space, prisoners and animals
Beyond‐human ethics
In this paper, I investigate how the development of ethics and methods in beyond human and posthuman research have largely been ignored within institutional ethical frameworks. Specifically, I argue that the ethical review process for research needs critical consideration in light of emerging multispecies methodologies. The inclusion and consideration of animals in geography should go further than “bringing animals in” to the discipline; instead …
Introduction to the urban ecologies open collection
This Open Collection proposes innovative research directions for both urban and beyond/more-than-/non-human geographies with animals. We are seeking papers for this Open Collection across three themes: (1) methods; (2) ethics and politics; and (3) planning and design. Specifically, we are interested in papers that pose questions of and reflect upon emergent tensions in researching with urban animals in each of these themes. This Open Collection a…
Boundaries and Histories in Nonhuman Animal Activism
Wrenn, C. Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits. University of Michigan Press, 2019. 300 pp.Wrenn’s (2019) Piecemeal Protest is a comprehensive, well-researched, and informative guide to the factions of the Anglo-American-Australian nonhuman animal movement, which will be cherished by readers interested in the Anglo-American histories and factions of the animal rights movement and beyond. The early chapters produce a necessary…
Returning to 'The Good Life'? Chickens and Chicken-keeping during Covid-19 in Britain
Through the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, humans have been exposed to the threat that the exploitation and eating of animals poses to humanity and public health. It has also become obvious that animals want to and are willing to take up more space. In the relative absence of humans during lockdown, animal populations have spread out and some have entered cities and towns for the first time. At the same time, humans have chosen to bring animals…
Rising with the rooster
The Opposite of Extinction
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”
Academic conferences have a central role in shaping career trajectories, reproducing or resisting exclusions and moulding relations in and to academia, thus shaping academic networks. In this paper, we consider how precarious academics subvert and navigate conference spaces, including emerging online forms. Particularly, we explore how academic conferences generate and nurture friendship as an enduring political practice that undermines neolibera…
Significant nothingness” in geographical fieldwork
Sharing the Field
The "field" has long been contested as spatially and temporally bounded. Feminist epistemologies have re-imagined and engaged field/work as shared, messy and co-constitutive, while critical more-than-human methodologies in the transdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities are further expanding our understanding of who and what counts in the production of knowledge in the field. This compendium article orbits around a collective concern …
Nature, with Catherine Oliver
It is increasingly accepted that we cannot take nature for granted. But do we even know what nature is? Catherine Oliver brings her expertise in geography and sociology – plus her love of chickens – to the latest Uncommon Sense to reflect on what’s at stake in how we think of and relate to “nature” – and how we might do better. Along the way, she considers what happens when neoliberalism shapes what “good” nature is – whether in regeneration or m…
Transforming paradise
In Birmingham, a badger visits me each evening outside my front door. Five years later, a fox meets me on a city street at 5 am. Two years after that, walking along the city’s canals, my eyes lock with a heron’s. A year later, a eucalyptus tree becomes my shade and respite in a disturbed city. Months later, as I get ready to leave the city, I encounter a group of parakeets. In this paper, I ask how these seemingly disparate encounters and relatio…
Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives
Veganism's visibility has soared in recent years. Contemporary veganism has built a trident approach of outreach that emphasises health benefits, ethical concerns about animals, and environmentally sustainable consumption. With this growth, there have been opportunities for influencer-activists to profit from positioning themselves as movement leaders. This is often connected with thin, white, wealthy women and the wellness industry, but there is…
Vegan world-making in meat-centric society
The question of the human body – whose matters, where, when, and how much – has long been of concern in geographical thinking. Vegan geographies pose a challenge to this ‘body,’ bringing in critical concerns for and about animal bodies. In this paper, interviews with vegans based in Britain are used to discuss the role of the body and embodiment in veganism, a social, cultural and political movement that has been relatively under-studied in geogr…
Byproductive limits and bits of animal life
In this paper, we argue that animal geography should extend its limits and analyses to the fragmented ‘byproducts’ and ‘bits of life’ that are made from animals. In so doing, we argue that a ‘byproductive lens’ is vital to an animal geography in the face of multiple and overlapping ecological crises. The paper opens by theorising byproductive animals and bits of life as increasingly important in the context of emerging biotechnologies. Drawing on…
Complaint
Dancing with foxes
Urban chicken‐keeping is on the rise in London, in private gardens, community gardens, allotments, schools, and urban farm projects. In welcoming chickens into the city, urban spaces are being transformed: coops are being built, runs constructed, chicken‐friendly flora introduced, and space landscaped to accommodate both chickens and humans. Underneath the design of these multispecies urban spaces, there is a desire to bring the good life into th…
Chicken metabolism, immobilization, and post-industrial production
Chickens have become emblematic of the Anthropocene: They embody the age of acceleration, (post-) industrial value, and intensification in scientific and technological knowledge and practice. Contemporary chickens are the bearers of significant genetic and nutritional knowledge, experimented upon and ‘tweaked’ so much so that some have denied that contemporary commercial chickens are chickens at all. This article reconsiders chickens through a me…
Archives beyond the Human
This article reflects on what it might mean to think about archives “beyond” the human, specifically in relation to animals and their archives. Interdisciplinary and disciplinary “animal turns” have brought animals into social science and humanities spaces—as both subjects and collaborators. In archival research and studies, encounters with animals, and more broadly nonhumans, both complicate and extend contemporary debates: on how we research in…
Unfamiliar Archives
This article documents the roundtable “Unfamiliar Archives,” which took place as part of a two-day event to mark twenty years of Cultural Politics. Drawing from a range of “archives in the making” related to activists, artists, social theorists, and digital media practices, the participants reflect on the political, ethical, and epistemological provocations offered by their specific archival encounters. In particular, the participants reflect on …
Sociology (18 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (17 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Environmental ethics (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (7 obras)