Journal for CAS
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ISSN: 1948-352X
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ABOUT JCAS
The purpose 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, ableism, homophobia, 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, 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.
HISTORY OF JCAS
The Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal founded in 2003 by Steve Best and Anthony J. Nocella II changed its name in 2007 to the Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS), a project of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) (formally known as the Center for Animal Liberation Affairs). JCAS was renamed by Steve Best, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Richard Kahn, which at that time until 2009 was led by Best. The Journal was established for the purpose of fostering academic study of critical animal issues in contemporary society. JCAS is grounded in an opposition to animal studies and research, which exploits nonhuman animals. The Journal for Critical Animal Studies is an interdisciplinary and intersection journal with an emphasis on total liberation and freedom for all. This Journal was designed to build up the common activist’s knowledge of animal liberation while at the same time appealing to academic specialists to address the important topic of animal liberation, freedom, and advocacy. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints of contributors from the frontlines of activism to academics. We have created the Journal for the purpose of facilitating communication between the many diverse perspectives of the animal advocacy movement. Thus, we especially encourage submissions that seek to create new syntheses between differing disputing parties and to explore paradigms not currently examined. The Journal for Critical Animal Studies is open to all scholars and activists. While the research and perspectives will differ, the editing of the pieces will be peer-reviewed for quality and originality. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints and topics.
SUGGESTED TOPICS
The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) is open to all scholars and activists. The journal was established for the purpose of fostering academic study of critical animal issues in contemporary society. Critical Animal Studies (CAS) is a challenge to Animal Studies (AS) science and research based field of study, which stresses vivisection, dissection, and behavior control and welfare politics of animals. Critical Animal Studies (CAS) is the academic field of study dedicated to the abolition of animal and ecological exploitation, oppression, and domination. CAS is grounded in a broad global emancipatory inclusionary movement for total liberation and freedom.
JCAS is an interdisciplinary journal with an emphasis on animal and total liberation philosophy and policy issues. This journal was designed to build up the common activist’s knowledge of animal liberation while at the same time appealing to academic specialists to address the important topic of animal liberation. We encourage and actively pursue a diversity of viewpoints of contributors from the frontlines of activism to academics. We have created the journal for the purpose of facilitating communication between the many diverse perspectives of the animal rights movement. Thus, we especially encourage submissions that seek to create new syntheses between differing disputing parties and to explore paradigms not currently examined.
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The key objectives of the Journal for Critical Animal Studies are to:
- Promote wider understanding of, and engagement with critical animal studies.
- Be relevant to diverse academic, activist and wider public communities
- Encourage and inform political and academic debate around critical animal studies.
- Publish innovative work on critical animal studies
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Papers are welcomed on any area of animal liberation philosophy from any discipline, and presenters are encouraged to share theses or dissertation chapters. Because a major goal of the Institute for CAS is to foster philosophical, critical, and analytic thinking about animal liberation, papers that contribute to this project will be given priority, especially papers that address:
- critical theory
- political philosophy
- environmental sociology
- bioethics
- animal cultural and language
- posthumanism
- globalization
- speciesism
- welfare and abolition
- domestic and wild
- prison and captivity
- anarchist studies
- social movement analysis and theory
- tactical analysis
- feminism and eco-feminism and pedagogy
- activism and academia
- social ecology
- deep ecology
- paganism
- spirituality
- religion
- terrorism and security studies
- peace and conflict studies
- straightedge
- intersectionality
- transnational feminism
- prisoner writings
- nonviolence and violence
- direct action and economic sabotage
- civil liberties and rights
- law
- critical race studies
- youth studies
- abolition studies
- policy studies
- international affairs
- Gender Studies
- Trans Studies
- industrial complex studies
- disability studies
- Continental philosophy
- post-colonial perspectives
- Native American Studies
- Pan-African Studies
- ecopedagogy
- standpoint theory, epistemology, and methodology
- transformative studies
- peace and conflict studies
- reflection studies
- critical pedagogy
- green criminology and security studies
- radical politics
- eco-ability
- green criminology
- African-American Studies
- revolutionary movements
- critical criminology
- Gimp Studies
- critical environmental studies
- LGBTQ Studies
**We especially encourage contributions that engage animal liberation in disciplines and debates that have received little previous attention.
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