Daisy Bisenieks
is an anthropologist and artist based in Hong Kong. Her research interests expand disciplines and geographies but primarily focus on anthroozology, in particular more-than-human geographies, human-wildlife conflict and policy, as well as sensory and multispecies ethnography. Other areas of research interest include experimental research practice, museum studies, migration and diaspora studies, material culture, development and transnational trade, which was further consolidated during her time as artist-researcher in residence at the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich between 2013–2016. Working together with her partner artist Royce Ng under the name Zheng Mahler, Bisenieks often works on research intensive, site-specific projects that utilise digital media, performance and installation to explore relationships between art and anthropology, examining the limits as well as methods and strategies of expanding both disciplines while experimenting with new interdisciplinary possibilities.
Julien Dugnoille
is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Exeter. For nearly a decade, much of his work has been dedicated to examining the place of dogs and cats in South Korean society and culture. His book Dogs and cats in South Korea: Itinerant commodities was published with Purdue University Press (2021). He has recently updated his findings by looking at how urban sustainability rhetoric used in South Korea during the current pandemic perpetuates naturalist ideologies of “modern” urban environments, which in turn silence a wide range of other ontologies (publication forthcoming). In collaboration with Elizabeth Vander Meer, he is also currently developing a project which explores how local, community-led approaches to the management of human-animal (especially cats) interactions in the urban space can reveal not only efficient alternatives to the dominant urban sustainability model, but also the social-cultural values and wellbeing benefits that emerge as communities engage with liminal animals in the urban space.
Charlotte Linton
is an anthropologist, designer and Postdoctoral Affiliate of the University of Oxford whose work is situated at the intersection of visual, material and economic anthropology, textiles and ethnoecology. She is interested in the relationships that craftspeople have with the environments from which they extract
Eva Meijer
is a philosopher and writer. Meijer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam (nl), on the four-year research project The politics of (not) eating animals, supported by a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council, and as a postdoctoral researcher in the project Anthropocene ethics: Taking animal agency seriously at Wageningen University and Research (nl). She is the chair of the Dutch study group for Animal Philosophy. Recent publications include When animals speak: Toward an Interspecies Democracy (New York University Press 2019), Animal Languages (John Murray 2019) and The Limits of my Language (Pushkin Press 2021). Meijer wrote twelve books, fiction and non-fiction, and her work has been translated into eighteen languages. More information can be found on her website:
Violette Pouillard
is chargée de recherche (permanent research fellow) at the cnrs (French national center for scientific research), affiliated with larhra in Lyon. She is currently a visiting professor at Ghent University, where she teaches environmental history. She has published widely on the history of zoos, the colonial management of wildlife, wildlife control and protection policies, and human-animal relations. Her book, Histoire des zoos par les animaux (Champ Vallon, 2019), which won the Jacques Lacroix prize from the French Academy, as well as the Suzanne Tassier prize from the Belgian Royal Academy, explores the history of wildlife commodification and the impact of international conservationist policies on the control of wild animals. Her current research looks at the history of international (post)colonial wildlife conservation policies in Central Africa, through the lens of the management of elephants in both Congo and Uganda since the nineteenth century. She is also on the editorial
Elizabeth Vander Meer
has a PhD in Environmental Policy and Ethics, which focused on the ethics and science behind mainstream biodiversity conservation, an Anthrozoology ma from the University of Exeter and is now in the third year of a PhD in Anthrozoology at Exeter. Her research is multidisciplinary, drawing on anthropology, compassionate conservation, performance studies, philosophy and social theory. She combines interests in biodiversity conservation with human-animal studies, conducting multispecies ethnographic studies that focus on human-wildlife conflict and co-existence and captive wild animals in circuses, rescue centres and zoos. She has recently published a chapter on remote camera viewing of wildlife, blending media and discourse analysis with ethnography, in the book, Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices (2022).
Christopher Ward
is a Research Associate in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on concepts of wildness in Europe, by way of what is a heavily human-handled and semi-domesticated mammal, the deer. He previously worked in documentary film-making and media technology, before studying Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, later receiving a PhD investigating the enclosure of the European Fallow Deer.