Dr.
Richard Twine
Cesagen
Institute for Advanced Studies
Lancaster University
LA1 4YD, UK
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Some of my unwitting collaborators - 2010 |
affiliations |
I am a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, |
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where I am presently contracted until 2012. |
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I have worked here since September 2002, starting not long after my PhD viva in February of that year. |
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I am always looking for colleagues researching on similar areas anywhere to work and collaborate with. |
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| current research keywords | teaching |
other projects |
| animals (and so, humans), biotechnology, sustainability, bioeconomy, ethics, posthumanism, intersectionality.... | MA
module: SOCL 933 Animals, Science and Society (not running this year) |
ecofem.org (1996-) During the early 90s I became interested in the intersectionality ideas of ecofeminist theory, so started a web-site that mostly now is a bibliography on ecofeminism. |
| journal
work Genomics, Society & Policy (Associate Editor & Co-founder with Prof. Ruth Chadwick) Journal for Critical Animal Studies (Part of the book review team with Vasile Stanescu) |
Postgraduate
Director (Cesagen) & Convenor of MA in Society, Technology & Nature (Dept. of Sociology). January 2010: UG teaching on masculinities, for Centre for Gender & Women's Studies. |
lawm.co.uk (2006-2009) I was a hobbyist diy not-for-profit music promoter putting on 50 nights of live music in a small 100 person venue in Lancaster. Acts included Polly Paulusma, John Renbourn, Diane Cluck, Chris Garneau, Alasdair Roberts, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Nancy Elizabeth, Rachel Unthank, Baby Dee & many more... |
| awards: | Faculty Research Prize - June 2007 | Visiting Research Fellow - NCSU/Animals & Society Institute,Raleigh,NC USA.June/July 2007 |
| publications / writings | ||
| books | ||
| -Twine, R (2010 - forthcoming) Animals as Biotechnology - Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (Earthscan) | ||
| journal articles | ||
| -Twine, R (2010) 'Intersectional Disgust? - Animals and (Eco) Feminism' forthcoming in Feminism and Psychology | ||
| -Twine, R (2007) 'Searching for the Win-Win? - Animals, Genomics and Welfare' International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food Vol.16, No.3, pp. 1-18. | ||
| -Twine, R (2007) 'Thinking Across Species - A Critical Bioethics Approach to Enhancement' Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Vol.28, No.6, pp. 509-523. | ||
| -Twine, R (2007) 'Animal Genomics and Ambivalence: A Sociology of Animal Bodies in Agricultural Biotechnology' Genomics, Society and Policy Vol.3, No.2, pp.99-117. | ||
| -Twine, R (2005) 'Constructing a Critical Bioethics by Deconstructing Culture/Nature Dualism' Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Vol.8, No.3, pp. 285-295. | ||
| -Twine, R (2005) 'From Warnock to the Stem Cell Bank - Evaluating the UK's Regulatory Measures for Stem Cell Research' Journal of International Biotechnology Law Vol.2, No.1, pp.1-14...>>.pdf | ||
| -Twine, R (2002) 'Physiognomy, Phrenology and the Temporality of the Body' Body and Society Vol.8, No.1, pp.67-88....>>.pdf | ||
| -Twine, R (2001) 'Ma(r)king Essence: Ecofeminism and Embodiment' Ethics and the Environment Vol.6, No.2, pp.31-58.....>>.pdf | ||
| chapters in books | ||
| -Twine, R (2010) "Genomic Natures read through Posthumanisms" forthcoming in Nature After the Genome edited by Parry, S. & Dupre, J. | ||
| -Twine, R (2010) "Broadening the Feminism in Feminist Bioethics" forthcoming in Feminist Bioethics: At the centre, at the margins edited by Scully, J, Baldwin-Ragaven, L & Fitzpatrick, P. | ||
| -Twine, R (2006) "Agricultural Animals as Targets of Genetic Progress - Engaging with Animal Scientists about the Impact of Genomics" in Ethics and the Politics of Food by Matthias Kaiser & Marianne Lien eds. Wageningen Academic Publishers | ||
| other | ||
| - Contributor to Anker, S & Talasek, J.D. eds. (2009) Visual Culture and Bioscience UMBC - Proceedings from a Virtual Symposium | ||
| - Holloway, L & Twine, R (2008) "Animal Engineering" Food Ethics Vol.3, No.3, pp.30-32. | ||
| -Twine, R (2005) Report of the First Meeting of the European Project on Biometric Identification Technology Ethics (BITE Project).....>>.pdf | ||
| -Twine, R (2002) "Ecofeminism and the 'New' Sociologies - A Collaboration Against Dualism" PhD dissertation ...>> Doctorate
Online [supervised by Dr. Gail Hawkes & former President of the British Sociological Association Professor Sue Scott. Externally examined by the late Dr. Anne Witz.] |
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| -Twine, R (2001) "Ecofeminisms in Process " online at ecofem.org/journal | ||
| -Twine, R (1997) "Masculinity, Nature, Ecofeminism" online at ecofem.org/journal | ||
| [see also Hall, L (2005) "Reflections on the Masculine Hegemon: A Reply to Richard Twine" online at ecofem.org/journal] | ||
| book reviews | ||
| -'On Cloning' by Harris, J. Ethical Perspectives - Journal of the European Ethics Network Vol.12, No.3, (2005), pp.410-413. | ||
| -'Science, Seeds and Cyborgs – Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life' by Bowring, F. Social Studies of Science Vol.35, No.1, (2005), pp.165-168. | ||
| -'Environmental Culture' by Plumwood, V. Environmental Values Vol.12, No.4, (2003), pp.535-537. | ||
| -'Genetic Imaginations- Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research' by Glasner, P & Rothman, H (eds.) Technology Analysis & Strategic Management Vol. 12, No.4, (2000), pp.541-542. | ||
| -'Ecological Feminism' by Warren, K (ed.) Environmental Values Vol. 6, No.3, (1997), pp.370-371. | ||
| presentations | ||
| 2010: April 23rd, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool - Day Conference: Animal(s) Matter(s): the Future of Critical Animal Studies. I will present on 'Putting the ‘critical’ in Critical Animal Studies. What does it mean?' |
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| Previous: | ||
| • "Farm Animal Genomics: Mobilising Sustainable Meat as Ethical Biocapital?” presented at the ESRC Genomics Network International Conference, October 7th, 2009. Cardiff, Wales. | ||
| • "Mining Animals – The Promises and Patents of Animal Genetics Science” presented at the inaugural MINDING ANIMALS International Conference, July 13-18, 2009. Newcastle, NSW, Australia. | ||
| • "Embodying Posthumanist Intersectionality and Resisting Transhumanist 'enhancement' through feminist veganism?” presented at the Meet Animal Meat International Conference,Uppsala University, Sweden, May 22nd 2009. | ||
| • "Farm Animal Genomics - Mobilising the Promise of Sustainability” presented at the Cesagen Workshop Promises, Promises! The Promissory Cultures and Political Economies of the Biosciences, Lancaster University, UK, May 7th 2009. | ||
| • "Re-designed animals as sustainable promises - Strategies for the protection of business as usual?” presented at the New Science of Protection: Designing Safe Living conference, Lancaster University, UK, July 10th 2008. | ||
| • "Critical Animal Studies, Posthumanism and the Sociological Imagination – To Describe, Prescribe, or What?” presented at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association (BSA), University of Warwick, UK, March 28th 2008. | ||
| • "Taking Stock of Animals in the Social Sciences: A Geographical and Sociological Exchange - A Sociological Perspective ” presented at the joint meeting of the BSA Animal/Human Studies Group and the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Rural Geography Research Group, Institute for Science and Society, Nottingham University, November 28th 2007. [invited] | ||
| • Symposium on the UK Transpecies Embryo Debate, ESRC Genomics Forum, University of Edinburgh, November 27th 2007. [invited discussant] | ||
| • "Frames of Uncertainty in Emerging Breeding Technologies in Animal Agriculture” presented (oral and poster) to the ESRC Genomics Network Conference - Genomics and Society: Today's Answers, Tomorrow's Questions, Great George Street, London, October 26th 2007. [invited] | ||
| • "Initial Thoughts on The Regulation of Emerging Breeding Technologies in Animal Agriculture", presented to the Animals and Society Institute Research Fellowship Pregramme, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, July 12th 2007. | ||
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"Finding
the animal, Losing the animal? dematerialization and rematerialisation
practices in animal science", presented at the Workshop on
The Social and Material Practices of Agriculture, Farming and Food Production,
Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University, June 6th 2007.[invited] |
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| • "Toward a Sociological Understanding of the Biotechnological Refashioning of Animal Bodies" presented at the British Sociological Association (BSA) 2007 annual conference themed around 'Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships', April 13th 2007. | ||
| • “Regulating Animal Genomics – An Opportunity for Scientific Humility” presented at the EGENIS Conference, Governing Genomics – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Regulation of the Biosciences, January 25th 2007. | ||
| • "Agricultural Animals as Targets of Genetic Progress - Engaging with Animal Scientists about the Impact of Genomics" presented at the EURSAFE 2006 conference, Oslo University, Oslo, Norway, June 22nd 2006. | ||
| • "Animals as New Sources of Bio-capital in the emerging Bioeconomy" presented at the 'Mapping the Bioeconomy: The Knowledge-Based Economy and the Biosciences' conference, Lancaster University, April 28th 2006. | ||
| • "Working Toward 'Genetic Progress: Engaging with Animal (Genomics) Scientists " presented to the Animal Genomes in Science, Social Science and Culture Workshop, hosted by the ESRC Genomics Research and Policy Forum, Edinburgh April 7th 2006 and to the Third International CESAGen conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21st 2006. | ||
| • "The Visions of Physiognomy and Phrenology: from 19th Century Pseudo-science to the 21st Century Moral Body" a public lecture at The Storey Institute, Lancaster, UK, 31st March 2006. [invited] | ||
| • "Progress, Precedent and Virtue - Some Thoughts on the Uncertain Fate of Animals in the Emerging Bio-economy" presented to the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS) at Exeter University, UK, 6th December 2005. [invited] | ||
| • “Thinking Across Species, Thinking Across Boundaries – A Critical Bioethics Approach to Enhancement” presented to the XXII EACME Conference & XIX European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare – ‘Ethics and Philosophy of Emerging Medical Technologies’, 25th August 2005, Barcelona, Spain. | ||
| • “Animals and Biotechnology – Functional Foods or Living Beings?” presented to the Friends of Animals Conference, July 10th 2005, New York City, USA. [invited plenary] | ||
| • “Reconsidering the Place of Animals in Bioethics”, presented to the 2nd International CESAGen Conference, April 14th, 2005, The Royal Society, London, UK. | ||
| • “Constructing Critical Bioethics”, presented to the IAB 7th World Congress of Bioethics, Sydney, Australia, 9th-12th November 2004. | ||
| • “Is Personal Choice the New Moral Absolute?” presented to the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN) Workshop on ‘Values, Policy and Innovation’, Edinburgh, Scotland, 22nd-23rd March 2004. | ||
| • “Constructing Critical Bioethics by Deconstructing Culture/Nature Dualism” presented to the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), Lancaster University, 5th November 2003. | ||
| • “Bioethics Today: A UK Online Bioethics Resource”, presented at the Lancaster launch of the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), Lancaster House Hotel, 10th October 2003. | ||
| • "Environmental Ethics' own Ethical Closures" November 2002, to the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University. | ||
| • "Sensing Other Bodies: The Emotionally Deprived Physiognomic Self" presented at the Emotional Geographies International Conference, Lancaster University, 23-25 September 2002. | ||
| • "Physiognomy: A Pre-cursor to Moral Bodies" presented to the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2000. | ||
| • "Ma(r)king Essence: Ecofeminism and Embodiment" presented at the 1998 BSA Annual Conference, Edinburgh. | ||
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