ISSN: 1948-352X
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The raison d’être of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) is to promote, encourage, support and enable the publication of research and writing that develops the dynamic field of critical animal studies. To do this more effectively the Journal actively seeks new ways of making itself ever more accessible, relevant and influential across a diverse range of academic, activist, policy making, and public communities. JCAS seeks to breakdown and mediate oppositions between theory and practice, college and community, and scholarship and citizenship, in order to make philosophy (in a broad sense) again a force of change and to repatriate intellectuals to the public realm. By “critical” we mean that animal studies must not become a safe and sanitized discourse; it must use its unique and powerful perspective to advance a radical, and oppositional discourse that engages and politicizes the many profound theoretical, environmental, and political issues embedded in animal studies. JCAS seeks a critique of hierarchy as a multifaceted and systemic phenomenon (e.g., racism, sexism, classism, and speciesism) and their intricate interrelationships. We believe the fissures and cracks in the emerging paradigm of animal studies create openings for radical interventions the challenges to humanist histories and the debilitating dualism between human animal and nonhuman animal. JCAS seeks to illuminate these problems and pose solutions through vivid, concrete, and accessible language.
The JCAS is ten years old, blind peer-reviewed, and the original founding journal of the field of critical animal studies. The review board, and articles published, are both international in scope and include contributions from many of the scholars at fore-front of the field of critical animal studies. The Institute for Critical Animal Studies, with which the Journal is affiliated, currently sponsors conferences in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain as well as editing two book series. We welcome contributions from any discipline.
More information about the history of JCAS is available here
Dr. Richard J. White, Editor-in-Chief
Richard.White@shu.ac.uk
Faculty of Development and Society
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus, Howard Street
Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK
