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About
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) was founded in 2001 in Texas, USA, by Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella II as the Center for Animal Liberation Affairs (CALA), but changed it’s name in 2006 due to the establishment of the field of critical animal studies, by Anthony J. Nocella II, Steven Best, Richard Kahn, and John Sorenson. ICAS is a fully volunteer-run international think tank, funded solely by individual donations and operating on a global budget of under $4,000 USD.
PURPOSE
Rooted in a deep commitment to radical impactful and solid intersectional scholarship and research for total liberation, ICAS, as a public intellectual collective, is dedicated to demonstrating that scholars can be activists, and activists can be scholars—bridging theory and action to advance total liberation through four programs:
- Education Forums – Lectures, Podcasts, Workshops, and Conferences
- Publications – Journals, Books, Newsletter, and Reports
- Recognition – Scholars, Fellows, and Awards
- Movement Building – Continental Chapters, Academic Programs, and Student Chapters
Further, our goals are to establish and advance new radical revolutionary intersectional theories and movements.
For the purpose of ending animal oppression / speciesism in all the societal areas: (1) Animal Entertainment, (2) Animal Testing, (3) Farm Animals, (4) Wildlife, (5) Animals at Work, (6) Companion Animals, and (7) Animals for Clothes.
MISSION
The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS), rooted in animal liberation and anarchism, is an international intersectional transformative holistic theory-to-action activist led based scholarly think-tank to unapologetically examine, explain, be in solidarity with, and be part of radical and revolutionary actions, theories, groups and movements for total liberation and to dismantle all systems of domination and oppression, in hopes for a just, equitable, inclusive, and peaceful world.