Creative writing and global animal protection
- Submitting institution
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University of Sunderland
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1271
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Creative writing collection
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The submission comprises two book chapters and a book. This research explores how creative writing has shaped narratives around global animal protection. In a period requiring urgent attention to human interaction with animals, made more critical by the COVID-19 pandemic, the research traces how writers represent human-animal relations and the natural world. Conducting original interviews and engaging in novel textual analysis and the production of creative non-fiction, this research responds to the industrialisation of our relationships with the nonhuman and offers original approaches for more responsible and intersectional narratives.
Produced through embodied investigation, The Pig in Thin Air is creative non-fiction exploring participation in contemporary animal advocacy. This includes a record of Lockwood’s involvement in slaughterhouse vigils, a restaurant ‘die-in’, as well as consultant for Farm Sanctuary, one America’s largest farm animal advocacy organisations. His insights into the role of embodied encounters are explored in new craft techniques for how these encounters can shape our ability to respond to and absorb different narratives. It has become a primary point of reference for animal protection organisations.
‘H is for Hypocrite’ is a critique of new nature writing picked up in the national media. It offers the insight that most nature writing remains mired in anthropocentric domination, even as it demands people to ‘love’ the natural world, and reinforces destructive modes of cultural behaviour. ‘The Collaborative Craft of Creatural Writing’ provides original research in interviews with writers and editors engaging in ecological writing. This demonstrates many writers are drawing upon indigenous cultures and spiritual practices to restore relationships through their creative outputs.
Together, these pieces of work have established Lockwood’s reputation as a narrative expert, leading to roles shaping the communications strategies of welfare and education outreach organisations; for example, as commissioned author on the Vegan Society’s new Food Systems Report.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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