Papers by Lynda M Korimboccus
Bristol University Press eBooks, Oct 5, 2023
Bristol University Press eBooks, Oct 5, 2023
Gendering Green Criminology, 2023
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, Oct 31, 2021
It is widely accepted that television is a powerful medium and that its influence, particularly o... more It is widely accepted that television is a powerful medium and that its influence, particularly on children and young people, can be profound (see for example Canadian Paediatric Society 2003; Strasburger 2004; Matyjas 2015). The representation and categorisation of non-humans in such content may therefore influence a culture’s attitudes towards those species and, by extension, its children’s views. This article investigates animal characters on three hundred and fourteen children’s TV shows across five days of ‘free’ to view UK programming during summer 2020, and is the first study in over twenty-five years (since Elizabeth Paul’s in 1996) to focus specifically on mainstream children’s TV, and the only one to have sole regard for pre- and early primary-age UK viewers. With research clear that the media is so influential, recognising the role of such culture transmission is vital to ‘undo’ unhelpful assumptions about animals that result in their exploitation, and change future norms (Joy 2009). Television media either ignores or misrepresents the subjective reality of many (particularly food) species, but with children preferring anthropomorphised animals to most others (Geerdts, Van de Walle and LoBue 2016), this carries implications in terms of responsibility for our ideas and subsequent treatment of those non-humans in everyday life.
Academia letters, Feb 27, 2021
Routledge eBooks, May 22, 2023
Student Journal of Vegan Sociology, 2021
It is the unfortunate truth that, in many places, more legal protection is afforded to industrial... more It is the unfortunate truth that, in many places, more legal protection is afforded to industrial property than to the many animal souls held captive therein, awaiting their fate at the hands of inseminators, slaughterers, or vivisectors. Whilst capitalism has brought opulence to some and opportunity to many more, it has also commodified the nonhuman to no more than a number. When activists for animal rights seek to redress the balance of power on behalf of their nonhuman brothers and sisters, they are labelled terrorists, and their activism deviance, whilst the perpetrators of physical and psychological violence against those nonhumans receive legal (and sometimes financial) protection from the state. In a nation of animal lovers such as the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (US) alike, advocates for our finned, feathered, and furred friends should be applauded, yet instead, campaigns against cruelty are criminalised. This paper applies several classical, critical theories of crime and deviance to this criminalisation of nonhuman animals' human allies. In most cases, the industries and institutions responsible for the use of animals in this way are also considered responsible for the perception of animal rights activism and liberation as acts of terror. But with the violence inflicted upon nonhumans within these settings, which side of the gate is the enemy on?
Networking Knowledge, 2021
It is widely accepted that television is a powerful medium and that its influence, particularly o... more It is widely accepted that television is a powerful medium and that its influence, particularly on children and young people, can be profound (see for example Canadian Paediatric Society 2003; Strasburger 2004; Matyjas 2015). The representation and categorisation of non-humans in such content may therefore influence a culture's attitudes towards those species and, by extension, its children's views. This article investigates animal characters on three hundred and fourteen children's TV shows across five days of 'free' to view UK programming during summer 2020, and is the first study in over twenty-five years (since Elizabeth Paul's in 1996) to focus specifically on mainstream children's TV, and the only one to have sole regard for pre-and early primary-age UK viewers. With research clear that the media is so influential, recognising the role of such culture transmission is vital to 'undo' unhelpful assumptions about animals that result in their exploitation, and change future norms (Joy 2009). Television media either ignores or misrepresents the subjective reality of many (particularly food) species, but with children preferring anthropomorphised animals to most others (Geerdts, Van de Walle and LoBue 2016), this carries implications in terms of responsibility for our ideas and subsequent treatment of those non-humans in everyday life.
Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 2020
Despite Peppa Pig being a billion-pound character favourite of children
across the globe, many of... more Despite Peppa Pig being a billion-pound character favourite of children
across the globe, many of those same children regularly consume pig
products. Using cognitive dissonance as a starting point, this photo essay
aims to investigate how the “meat paradox” (Loughnan et al., 2010) may be
applied at an intra-species level to this phenomenon: The Peppa Pig Paradox.
It may be that animals in the Peppa series are simply anthropomorphised
versions of ourselves (Mills, 2017); that the anthropocentric human-isanimal metaphors we employ maintain negative views of all things porcine
(Goatly, 2006); or that the socialisation process and norm maintenance
necessitate dissociative language (Plous, 1993) about other animals to
maintain a boundary across which we dare not tread. As the 21st century
develops and veganism increases in popularity, perhaps connections will
become more explicit as plant-based food becomes more readily available.
Increased associations might create a shift in consciousness away from
strategic ignorance (Onwezen & van der Weele, 2016) to a more conscious,
species-inclusive society, where Peppa Pig fans will shun the very notion of
consuming pig flesh and demand the same of others.
Anthrozoology academics and post-graduate students arrived at the University of Exeter’s Streatha... more Anthrozoology academics and post-graduate students arrived at the University of Exeter’s Streatham campus one bright Friday morning in late April 2019 to embark upon a weekend of lectures, presentations, films and vegan food. Whilst I found most of the first two days of the residential interesting, the opportunity to finally meet staff in person an honour, and attempts to guess fellow students from their Adobe Connect tutorial voices much fun, I was already eagerly anticipating the final day’s presentations. Sunday’s programme spoke loudest to my long-standing interests in ‘rescue’ dogs, tattoos, ethics and
morality, as well as harm-based arguments against vivisection.
This paper is a portfolio containing a reflexive journal, photo essay and critical review of three presentations from the weekend, produced after the residential weekend for the accompanying accredited module.
Conference Presentations by Lynda M Korimboccus
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Exeter as Symbiotic Ethics: Anthrozoology as International Practice (Student Conference, University of Exeter), 2021
Social attitudes towards animals develop from childhood and the everyday discourse surrounding th... more Social attitudes towards animals develop from childhood and the everyday discourse surrounding them. In the UK at least, animals are categorised into subject/object, edible/inedible, even visible/invisible (Stewart & Cole 2009), through the instillation of social norms from those we trust around us. Part of these socialisation processes includes the media, not least through the cultural consumption of children’s television (TV). TV representations are investigated to highlight the inconsistencies taught to our children through popular animal characters.
There is little objection to any claim that youngsters love animals: toy collections and city farm visits of many children evidence this. However, most of these children also eat animals and will continue to into adulthood – an example of the ‘Meat Paradox’ (Loughnan, Bastian & Puvia 2012). Extending this, the more species-specific ‘Peppa Pig Paradox’ (Korimboccus 2020) highlights the species adorning the side of lunchboxes as well as filling the sandwiches inside. Ham-eating Peppa Pig fans (and fish-eating aquaria visitors) demonstrate disconnect before children are even cognitively able to question it. They believe certain animals are ‘for’ certain purposes – usually human gain of some sort, and frequently through food choices.
Media reinforces these everyday contradictions through representation of various animal species. Content analysis of children’s mainstream UK TV series evidences these speciesist stereotypes, from ‘pests’ such as Peter Rabbit to ‘pets’ in Ferne & Rorie’s Vet Tales. Though other work exists on wider cultural media representations of animals on TV (e.g. Mills 2017), and even on children’s TV during the analog era (Paul 1996), these studies are the first to focus solely on pre-school and primary-age children’s digital terrestrial TV in the 21st century.
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Papers by Lynda M Korimboccus
across the globe, many of those same children regularly consume pig
products. Using cognitive dissonance as a starting point, this photo essay
aims to investigate how the “meat paradox” (Loughnan et al., 2010) may be
applied at an intra-species level to this phenomenon: The Peppa Pig Paradox.
It may be that animals in the Peppa series are simply anthropomorphised
versions of ourselves (Mills, 2017); that the anthropocentric human-isanimal metaphors we employ maintain negative views of all things porcine
(Goatly, 2006); or that the socialisation process and norm maintenance
necessitate dissociative language (Plous, 1993) about other animals to
maintain a boundary across which we dare not tread. As the 21st century
develops and veganism increases in popularity, perhaps connections will
become more explicit as plant-based food becomes more readily available.
Increased associations might create a shift in consciousness away from
strategic ignorance (Onwezen & van der Weele, 2016) to a more conscious,
species-inclusive society, where Peppa Pig fans will shun the very notion of
consuming pig flesh and demand the same of others.
morality, as well as harm-based arguments against vivisection.
This paper is a portfolio containing a reflexive journal, photo essay and critical review of three presentations from the weekend, produced after the residential weekend for the accompanying accredited module.
Conference Presentations by Lynda M Korimboccus
There is little objection to any claim that youngsters love animals: toy collections and city farm visits of many children evidence this. However, most of these children also eat animals and will continue to into adulthood – an example of the ‘Meat Paradox’ (Loughnan, Bastian & Puvia 2012). Extending this, the more species-specific ‘Peppa Pig Paradox’ (Korimboccus 2020) highlights the species adorning the side of lunchboxes as well as filling the sandwiches inside. Ham-eating Peppa Pig fans (and fish-eating aquaria visitors) demonstrate disconnect before children are even cognitively able to question it. They believe certain animals are ‘for’ certain purposes – usually human gain of some sort, and frequently through food choices.
Media reinforces these everyday contradictions through representation of various animal species. Content analysis of children’s mainstream UK TV series evidences these speciesist stereotypes, from ‘pests’ such as Peter Rabbit to ‘pets’ in Ferne & Rorie’s Vet Tales. Though other work exists on wider cultural media representations of animals on TV (e.g. Mills 2017), and even on children’s TV during the analog era (Paul 1996), these studies are the first to focus solely on pre-school and primary-age children’s digital terrestrial TV in the 21st century.
across the globe, many of those same children regularly consume pig
products. Using cognitive dissonance as a starting point, this photo essay
aims to investigate how the “meat paradox” (Loughnan et al., 2010) may be
applied at an intra-species level to this phenomenon: The Peppa Pig Paradox.
It may be that animals in the Peppa series are simply anthropomorphised
versions of ourselves (Mills, 2017); that the anthropocentric human-isanimal metaphors we employ maintain negative views of all things porcine
(Goatly, 2006); or that the socialisation process and norm maintenance
necessitate dissociative language (Plous, 1993) about other animals to
maintain a boundary across which we dare not tread. As the 21st century
develops and veganism increases in popularity, perhaps connections will
become more explicit as plant-based food becomes more readily available.
Increased associations might create a shift in consciousness away from
strategic ignorance (Onwezen & van der Weele, 2016) to a more conscious,
species-inclusive society, where Peppa Pig fans will shun the very notion of
consuming pig flesh and demand the same of others.
morality, as well as harm-based arguments against vivisection.
This paper is a portfolio containing a reflexive journal, photo essay and critical review of three presentations from the weekend, produced after the residential weekend for the accompanying accredited module.
There is little objection to any claim that youngsters love animals: toy collections and city farm visits of many children evidence this. However, most of these children also eat animals and will continue to into adulthood – an example of the ‘Meat Paradox’ (Loughnan, Bastian & Puvia 2012). Extending this, the more species-specific ‘Peppa Pig Paradox’ (Korimboccus 2020) highlights the species adorning the side of lunchboxes as well as filling the sandwiches inside. Ham-eating Peppa Pig fans (and fish-eating aquaria visitors) demonstrate disconnect before children are even cognitively able to question it. They believe certain animals are ‘for’ certain purposes – usually human gain of some sort, and frequently through food choices.
Media reinforces these everyday contradictions through representation of various animal species. Content analysis of children’s mainstream UK TV series evidences these speciesist stereotypes, from ‘pests’ such as Peter Rabbit to ‘pets’ in Ferne & Rorie’s Vet Tales. Though other work exists on wider cultural media representations of animals on TV (e.g. Mills 2017), and even on children’s TV during the analog era (Paul 1996), these studies are the first to focus solely on pre-school and primary-age children’s digital terrestrial TV in the 21st century.