Richard Twine is a British sociologist whose research addresses environmental sociology as well as gender, human/animal and science studies.[1] He is noted for his "foundational" work in critical animal studies.[2] He is a Reader in the Department of History, Geography & Social Sciences at Edge Hill University and chair of the Research Advisory Committee of The Vegan Society.[1]

Career

Twine studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Psychology at the University of Stirling, graduating in 1995, and then went on to study for a Master of Arts in Sociology at the University of Essex, which he completed in 1996. He was awarded his PhD in Sociology from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2002.[3] His thesis, supervised by Gail Hawkes and Sue Scott and examined by Anne Witz, was entitled Ecofeminism and the 'New' Sociologies - A Collaboration Against Dualism.[4]

Twine went on to work at the UCL Institute of Education, and then spent a decade at Lancaster University, where he was based within the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics.[1] While at Lancaster, he published Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies as part of the Earthscan Science in Society Series.[5] This was "the first book fully dedicated to" critical animal studies.[2] It offered, in the words of one reviewer, "an impressive analysis of the biotech and meat industries from an unapologetically pro-animal perspective".[6]

Twine worked as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow after finishing at Lancaster,[7] and then published the collection The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre, co-edited with Nik Taylor, with Routledge in 2014.[8] The same year, he joined Edge Hill University.[9] As of 2023, Twine is a Reader in Sociology in the Department of History, Geography & Social Sciences at Edge Hill.[3] His book The Climate Crisis and Other Animals is forthcoming with Sydney University Press.[10]

Selected publications

  • Twine, Richard (2010). Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies. London: Earthscan.
  • Twine, Richard (2012). "Revealing the 'Animal-Industrial Complex' – A Concept & Method for Critical Animal Studies?" Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10 (1): 12-39.
  • Twine, Richard (2014). "Vegan Killjoys at the Table—Contesting Happiness and Negotiating Relationships with Food Practices". Societies 4 (4): 623-39. doi:10.3390/soc4040623.
  • Taylor, Nik, and Richard Twine, eds. (2014). The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre. London: Routledge.
  • Twine, Richard (2017). "Materially Constituting a Sustainable Food Transition: The Case of Vegan Eating Practice". Soiology 52 (1): 166-81. doi:10.1177/0038038517726647.
  • Twine, Richard (2024). The Climate Crisis and Other Animals. Sydney: Sydney University Press.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr Richard Twine (Chair of RAC)". The Vegan Society. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 Nocella, Anthony J.; Sorenson, John; Socha, Kim; Matsuoka, Atsuko (2014). "The Emergence of Critical Animal Studies: The Rise of Intersectional Animal Liberation". Counterpoints. 448: xix–xxxvi. JSTOR 42982374.
  3. 1 2 "Dr Richard Twine". Edge Hill University. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Publications". Richardtwine.com. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  5. ↑ Reviews:
  6. ↑ Lynch, Joseph J. (2012). "Animals as Biotechnology: Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies". Journal of Animal Ethics. 2 (2): 232–4. doi:10.5406/janimalethics.2.2.0232.
  7. ↑ Taylor, Nik; Twine, Richard, eds. (2014). "Contributors". The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: From the Margins to the Centre. Routledge. pp. xvi–xix.
  8. ↑ Reviews:
  9. ↑ "Richard Twine". ORCID. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  10. ↑ "The Climate Crisis and Other Animals". Syndey University Press. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
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