Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis: Multispecies Sociology for the New...

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Josephine Browne (Griffith University, Australia) Zoei Sutton (Flinders University, Australia)

Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis

Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal

Josephine Browne (Griffith University, Australia), Zoei Sutton (Flinders University, Australia)

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Routledge
28 November 2025

Research methods: general; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Social theory; Medical sociology

Series: Multispecies Encounters

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission. Considering the consequences of a range of multispecies engagements that challenge the perceived distinction between the social worlds of humans and other animals, it explores the themes of crisis through a range of studies, including ecological disturbance, consumer culture, intensive farming and interspecies relations in urban life. With attention to central questions about life in ‘the now normal’, including the extent to which a human–animal perspective can contribute to our understanding of pandemics, the ideological foundations of mainstream norms for human–animal relations and the scope of current and emerging social movements for reshaping human–animal relations, this volume represents a timely and important call for a sociological vision to embrace the implications of a multispecies planet and to expand the concepts of inclusion and justice. A reconsideration of the human–animal relation that seeks both to revise sociology’s past and inform its future, Human–Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crises will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in human–animal relations and the environment.

Edited by: Josephine Browne (Griffith University Australia), Zoei Sutton (Flinders University, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032191485
ISBN 10: 1032191481
Series: Multispecies Encounters
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 28 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Notes on contributors List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Zoei Sutton and Josephine Browne Part I: Animals in everyday life 1 The chicken city: Urban interspecies sociabilities Catherine Oliver 2 Fairweather friends? Rethinking multispecies companionship in the new normal Zoei Sutton 3 Power, politics and representation in research with (other) animals in the ‘new normal’ Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser Part II: Activism 4 (Not so) hidden barriers to a vegan-inclusive norm: The struggle against speciesism for compassionate children who could change the world Lynda M. Korimboccus 5 Incorporating a structural approach into animal advocacy Nick Pendergrast 6 Selling veganism in the Age of COVID: Vegan representation in British newspapers in 2020 Corey Wrenn Part III: Species(ist) relations 7 Food animals as an economic class: Animals as commodities under capitalism Dinesh Wadiwel 8 Resisting Zoopolis: bordering species relations as a response to COVID-19 Erika Cudworth 9 That killing joke isn’t funny anymore: Rebranding speciesism after Brexit Matthew Cole 10 Dystopian or utopian fiction? The sociological imagination and the representation of pandemic futures in The Animals in That Country Josephine Browne Index

Josephine Browne is a sociologist who has most recently held positions at Griffith and Southern Cross Universities, where she brings critical approaches to animal studies and gender in her teaching and research. Zoei Sutton is a lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University pursuing critical, non-human animal-centric research.