Barbara Noske

Barbara Noske is a Dutch cultural anthropologist and philosopher, working at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. She is known for first describing the concept of the animal industrial complex.

Academic career

Noske studied at York University in Toronto and holds an MA in socio-cultural anthropology and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. In the 1990s, Noske taught environmental ethics, ecology and ecofeminism at York University. She has worked as a research fellow at the University of Sydney.

Noske specializes in the human–animal relationship. Her research focuses to determine whether and where dividing lines lie, from scientific, ethical and historical perspectives. Her writings are thematically in the critical animal studies and deep ecological ecofeminism.

Bibliography

  • Huilen met de wolven: Een interdisciplinaire benadering van de mens-dier relatie (Unpublished thesis, 1988)
  • Humans and Other Animals: Beyond the Boundaries of Anthropology (1989)
  • Beyond Boundaries: Humans and Animals (1997)
  • Al liftend: Uit het leven van een wereldreizigster (2000)

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