Linking Animal Cruelty and Family Violence
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Linking Animal Cruelty and Family Violence By Lisa Anne Zilney

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  • The British Sociological Association in 2006 formed the Animal/Human Studies Group.
  • The Department of Sociology at Brock University in Ontario, Canada kicked off their new concentration in Critical Animal Studies by hosting a conference with the theme, “Domination, Captivity, Liberation.”
  • A Special Issue of Humanity & Society is planned for 2008 on the connections between the oppression of animals and broader issues of social injustice, “Social Justice and the Animal Question.”
  • The registration form for the 2007 meetings of the Society for Women Sociologists offers options on meal preferences: “vegan,” “vegetarian,” and “nonvegetarian.”
  • The Environment & Technology section of the Society for the Study of Social Problems sponsors an animal-related session each year as part of their program.

    • Historically, research on the biophysical processes of the environment and research on the social problems resulting from the interconnectedness of human activities and biophysical processes were the separate intellectual domains of particular specialties in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. Each discipline zealously guarded its theoretical, empirical, and academic interests, virtually prohibiting interdisciplinary discourse and cooperation in research. Well into the mid-20th century,