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This is a children's book I wrote with LOH Wan Inn, with a theme related to valuing the strengths of other animals, and seeking ways that we humans can collaborate with rather than dominate our fellow animals
Writing for Animals
Writing for Animals: An anthology for writers and instructors to educate and inspire2018 •
The more we study animals, the smarter they get. My introduction from the anthology from Ashland Creek Press. Here's a full description: A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at how we depict animals and ask ourselves difficult questions. For example, are we using animals for our writing in a way that is authentic and fair? Or are we using them for our own purposes, leading to further misconceptions and abuses? As our awareness awakens about animals’ intelligence, sensitivity, and social and emotional lives, literature is beginning to reflect this change in awareness. Yet little has been written about the process of writing about animals, from crafting point of view to giving animals realistic voices. Writers face many questions and choices in their work, from how to educate without being didactic to how to develop animals as characters for an audience that still views them as ingredients. In this book, writers will find myriad voices to assist them in writing about animals, from tips about craft to understanding the responsibility of writing about animals. Articles & Contributors Do We Have the Right to Write About Animals? Joanna Lilley Animals that Work in Stories Lisa Johnson A Case for More Reality in Writing for Animals Rosemary Lombard Meeting the Wild Things Where They Are Kipp Wessel Rewilding Literature: Catalyzing Compassion for Wild Predators through Creative Nonfiction Paula MacKay Rabies Bites: How Stephen King Made a Dog a Compelling Main Character Hannah Sandoval Real Advocacy within Fantasy Worlds Beth Lyons Writing Animals Where You Are Hunter Liguore Other Nations Marybeth Holleman Giving Animals a Voice: Letters from an Ashland Deer John Yunker No One Mourns an Unnamed Animal: Why Naming Animals Might Help Save Them Midge Raymond Are You Willing? Sangamithra Iyer With a Hope to Change Things: An Exploration of the Craft of Writing about Animals with the Founders of Zoomorphic Magazine Alex Lockwood
Language & Ecology Journal
John Yunker (Ed.), Writing for Animals: New Perspectives for Writers and Instructors to Educate and Inspire. Ashland Creek Press2022 •
According to Margulis, Wong, Simchy-Gross and McAuley, humans possess a tendency to narrativize abstract events. In their 2019 paper, the authors point out that when we face any type of chaotic information, we infer a narrative. The tendency to transform unknown information into narratives shapes the way people make sense of their lives and the way we interact among us humans and with other species: characters, events, context. We assign roles in our stories even to rocks, rivers, tables and chairs. Narratives and stories not only help us relate with the world around us, but they make us understand and empathize. We can figure out something about the characters in a story by the unfolding events, and vice versa, the type of characters may suggest a plot. We can also foresee upcoming events due to our experience with previous narratives. But the most important thing about narratives is how they make us feel. We get involved in social action because we care, because we feel something that happened to others may happen to us or someone we love. In this sense, Writing for Animals: An anthology for writers and instructors to educate and inspire is a toolbox for writers and communicators but also a guide on how to build bridges between non-human animals and a human-dominated world. The book starts with an invitation to rethink the way we relate with other species and the part they play in our lives. In the introduction, John Yunker reminds us how much we talk and write about animals and yet how little we really know them, or rather, how little we think about their needs, emotions and intelligence. Yunker takes the opportunity to point out to the difference between writing for animals and writing about them. In doing so, he makes his ecosophy explicit while he invites us to include animals in our narratives and lives by taking a look at their world, not adopting a dominating perspective but through the ethnographer's vision. The internal structure of the book suggests a journey following this perspective: it starts with the place of the writer in the narratives and ends with a description of the impact they can achieve in the world.
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Event Management
Environmental Challenges and Championship Events: Perspectives from the Serious Dog Sport Enthusiast2013 •
How event competitors handle social, emotional, and environmental conditions can have a significant impact on the outcome of their competitive experiences. this article is part of a larger exploration about the role of serious dog sport in shaping life choices, overcoming challenges, and learning about one's self. It was conducted with participants at NADAC's 10th International Championships held at Castle Rock, Colorado in 2004. As I was both a competitor in this event as well as an investigator, I have chosen to use a modified ethnographic approach. Results demonstrated the power of adaptation and coping to achieve goals as well as the role that emotions play in perceptions of accomplishments. Competitors faced challenging environmental conditions, very long hours, and unfamiliar programmatic situations. yet, the majority of the competitors found ways to make the experience one in which they found satisfaction.
The field of animal studies cannot be contained by discipline or phenomena. Animals are our friends and our food. They live in our homes and in our dreams. They stare down at us from temple walls, and call out to us as victims of our intentional and unintentional cruelty. This is issue of the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies explores the relationship between animals and humans. Four original articles explore the imagined and symbolic significance of animals in religious literature and social movements, the place of animals in the courts of kings, and the ways that animals bridge the limitations in our own brief lives.
Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction
Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short FictionSecond edition of critically acclaimed fiction anthology reveals stories that affirm the indelible bond among humans and animals Faculty who would like an advance examination copy -- please contact me.
Aesthetic Literacy: A Book for Everyone
A Trip to the Zoo2022 •
An introduction to the philosophy of literature, in the form of a choose-your-own-adventure story.
Christian Century, December
"Nativity of the Lord," Christian Century Lectionary December 24/25, 20232023 •
<Actes du XIVe Congrès de l'AIEO>, München Open Publishing LMU
Autour du vieux débat sur la place du catalan et de l'occitan entre la Gallia et l'Ibéria: Suite au débat classique sur le sous-groupement de la langue catalane2024 •
2021 •
Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation
Colon cancer cells cultured under hyperosmotic conditions as in vitro model to investigate dehydration effects on cancer drug susceptibility2019 •
Comptes Rendus Palevol
A new Chalicothere from the Pondaung Formation (late Middle Eocene of Myanmar)2005 •
2023 •
Weed Biology and Management
Conyza sumatrensis: A new weed species resistant to glyphosate in the Americas2014 •
Hispanic Research Journal-iberian and Latin American Studies
Narcoarte, feminicidio y desaparición. Los casos de Ciudad Juárez y Ayotzinapa. Estéticas y políticas del neocolonialismo global2018 •
. International Journal of All Research Education and Scientific Methods (IJARESM), ISSN: 2455-6211. June-2024, Volume 12, Issue 6, 1268-1278.
In Vitro Methods for Evaluating Antidiabetic Formulations: A Comprehensive Review2024 •
ABCS Health Sciences
Effects of a multimodal physical exercise program on physical and mental health indicators in males with substance use disorder2021 •
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Discriminative Multi-Modality Speech Recognition2020 •