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Vulnerable Witness
Scholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions, Vulnerable Witness centers the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of research—from methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one's own research.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses. Comprising fifty chapters, the book explores a range of debates and scholarship within important contemporary topics such as companion animals, hunting, agriculture, and animal activist strategies. It also offers timely analyses of zoonotic disease pandemics, mass extinction, and the climate catastrophe, using perspectives including feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, and masculinities studies. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an essential reference for students in gender studies, sexuality studies, human-animal studies, cultural studies, sociology, and environmental studies.
Critical Animal Studies
This important book charts new territory by showcasing some of the newest developments in the rapidly-growing field of Critical Animal Studies. Critical Animal Studies presents a radical ethical and normative challenge to existing systems of power in the context of neoliberal capitalism and to the existential structure of speciesism. The essays in this book link activist and academic approaches to dismantle the exploitation and oppression of nonhuman animals. Featuring an international team of contributors, the book reflects the transdisciplinary character of Critical Animal Studies, with chapters by activists and academics from disciplines across the social sciences, including historical archaeology, political science, psychology, geography, law, social work and philosophy. The book provides advanced-level students with an ideal introduction to a wide range of perspectives on Critical Animal Studies, amongst other things proposing new ways of considering animal advocacy, decolonization and liberation.
Irish Heritage of Allied Members of McGivern's, McDermott's, Gallagher's, Gillespie's
The author descends from several ancient Irish families. The Gallaghers and MacDermotts descend from the House of Heremon who enterred into Ireland with the Milesian invasion. The MacDermotts traditionally ruled in northern Ireland while the Gillespies appear to be of Anglo- Irish heritage. John McDermott (1818-1883) was born in County Armagh and married Catherine McGivern (1825-1902) also of County Armagh. In the early 1850s they immigrated to America and eventually settled in Illinois. They were the parents of five children. Their descendants live throughout the United States.
The Sound of Feathers
Through storytelling and personal reflections, Kathryn Gillespie invites readers to slow down, pay attention, and notice the small wonders of nature--from the rustle of a crow's wings to the cool touch of moss on a stone wall--so that they might imagine shared futures of flourishing.
The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals—animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly benign practice of raising animals for milk is just one link in a chain that affects livestock across the agricultural spectrum. Gillespie takes readers to farms, auction yards, slaughterhouses, and even rendering plants to show how living cows become food. The result is an empathetic look at cows and our relationship with them, one that makes both their lives and their suffering real.
A Collection of Stones, and Most of Them--gems
William Stone was born in about 1740 in Londonderry, Ireland. He married Jane (1745-1828). They had seven or eight children. William and his son, Rowland, emigrated in 1773 and the rest of the family came in 1774. They settled in Pennsylvania, then moved to Abbeville, South Carolina in about 1778 and then to Tennessee in about 1810. William served in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1812 in Williamson, County, Tennessee. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas and California.
