@jamiearathoon.bsky.social
Lecturer in Geography @ York St John University | human-animal relations | disability and assistance animals | #EMCA | #PetTheftReform | they/them | 🏳️🌈
Interested in learning more about corporate power and industrial chicken production? We have a new blog out from Amby Karamchedu and Ben Coles:
www.rgsanimalgeographies.uk/the-blog/who...
This is a graphical abstract for this paper in The Geographical Journal. It is a photograph of three 'lifestyle migrants' in China celebrating a dog's birthday with seven large dogs gathered around them.
New in The GJ:
'Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China' by Duo Yin & Quan Gao
This paper explores how dogs co-construct and contest the making of home alongside lifestyle migrants in China.
doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
◾ The study provides critical insights for students, researchers, and policymakers to understand and reform human‐animal relations worldwide, advocating for ethical, evidence‐based policies.
12.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0◾ The study examines three legislative approaches ‐ controlling out‐of‐place animals, regulating animal bodies, and protecting against harm ‐ revealing their spatial and political dimensions.
12.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0◾ We explore how evolving societal values reshape legal frameworks, emphasising dogs’ emotional and social significance in human‐dog relations.
12.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0◾ In it we employ a legal animal geographies lens to redefine dogs as more‐than‐property, focusing on the UK’s legislative shift from the Theft Act 1968 to the Pet Abduction Act 2024, recognising their sentience.
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Happy to see my new article co-authored with Daniel Allen and John Walliss published Open Access in Geography Compass.
◾ The article is titled: An Exploration of Dog‐Related Policy Through a Legal Animal Geographies Lens 🐶
doi.org/10.1111/gec3...
📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣
🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.
🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
15.08.2025 09:58 — 👍 6271 🔁 2400 💬 119 📌 173OnlineFirst - "Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity" by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social:
@uoe-llc.bsky.social #conservation #ecocinema #environmentalism #foraging #solidarity
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🌍Are you attending the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in Birmingham later this month?🌏
🚌You can request free bus travel around Birmingham during the week of the conference - just complete the form below by Sunday 17th August.
Geographers please share!
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A summary of some of the headline findings from our article on recent trends in dog theft (see the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...).
24.07.2025 16:51 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕🦺 🐄🐎🐦⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...
Also FA basically practicing Tory post-covid vibes of the ad of a sports person saying "Fatima's next job could be in cyber, she just doesn't know it yet".
Expect forcing a select small minority into this.
28 amateur footballers who are transgender can no longer play in women's football as the FA ban starts.
The FA have offered "online talking therapy" & said they could go down a route to be a referee.
It's giving 'how do you feel all though we don't give a fuck and won't do anything about it'.
Powerful open letter from Liverpool Hope #DisabilityStudies students/grads in response to proposed redundancy of the ENTIRE DS team: DS "is not just an academic discipline but a lifeline. [Tutors] bring lived expertise, intellectual leadership, and care that cannot be replicated elsewhere"
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We have another exciting research seminar coming up – this time with Dr Muhammad Kavesh on ‘Hospitality and Hostility: Arrival and Intrusion of Foreign Pigeons in Pakistan and India’! Please see more info and QR code for registration below:
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Shira the grey and white cat rolled up in a ball on my lap
Sometimes I forget other cats have two back legs. Makes her circle mode much smaller!
12.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whenever I click on the news at the moment there just seems to be constant transphobia and hate. So depressing.
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Four of the geographers in a row for a celebratory photograph. Left to right: Olalekan Adekola, Pauline Couper (with cycle helmet hair), Abby Mycroft (inspirational staff member), Jude Parks.
Certificate for Course Team of the Year, YSJ Awards 2025.
Abby on stage receiving her award from the Vice Chancellor and the SU President: Education. Behind them are the letter YSJ in lights.
And Course Team of the Year 2025 is...Geography!!🎈🎉
All good fun at the YSJ SU Awards last night, with one of the geographers also getting Inspirational Staff Member Award. 👏🏼
Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
29.04.2025 16:08 — 👍 35 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 2Can you recommend any lit on use of sorry in this way?
15.04.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi #emca scholars! I'm looking for help with some lit.
I have an example I am writing up where a path is being blocked by workers, a sign, and a bollard, that a wheelchair user is trying to navigate past. On the approach they say to the workers "sorry" rather than "excuse me" to get past.
Congratulations, I enjoyed reading Absolution and going to your reading and signing in Glasgow!
07.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Minority students should not have to spend their time at university being harassed, mocked, shamed, and told that who they are is invalid and unworthy or a fraud
They are there to study and to learn, not to be forced to constantly defend their existence in ways others never need to
Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
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Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa
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A reminder that the next 'Globalising Animal Geographies' seminar from is happening this Friday at 4pm.
We will hear from @annaguasco.bsky.social and her research on 'reimagining whales' geographies'!
Sign up using the QR code :)
Photo of From r-l Alasdair Cochrane Rosaleen Duffy Bob McKay and Eva Haifa Giraud
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
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