Dr. Les Mitchell
ICAS Africa Director
Dr. Mitchell, is the Director of the Hunterstoun Centre of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa and an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He gained a doctorate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, for his dissertation titled ‘Discourses and the Oppression of Non-human Animals: A Critical Realist Account’. He has worked in Pathology, Community Health and Education in Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa where he taught sciences in a township school in Grahamstown. His Masters dissertation at the University of Malawi is titled ‘The Relevance of the Malawian MSCE Science Syllabus to the Lives of Young Malawians’. He is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Animal Ethics and the Palgrave Macmillan Series on Animal Ethics. He published ‘Animals and the Discourse of Farming in Southern Africa’ in Society and Animals, Vol. 14, No.1, 2006, 39-59 and the review, Crying Fowl in the Journal of Animal Ethics (forthcoming). His research interests are critical realism, non-human animals, discourses, power in society, genocide, moral disengagement, and alternatives to violence.
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Aragorn Eloff
ICAS Africa Conference Director
Aragorn Eloff is a Co-Cirector of the South African Vegan Society. His interests include the intersections between animal rights, radical ecology and social justice, the possibilities of poststructuralist ethics and the process ontology of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Aragorn writes and lectures on anarchism and radical ecology and believes there is an urgent need for animal rights discourse to transform itself through a sustained encounter with these tendencies.
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