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In 2020, during the Covid-19 outbreak in the UK, interest in domestic chicken-keeping sky-rocketed, expediting trends that have seen increasing numbers of people re-homing chickens in recent years, notably in urban areas. The demand for chickens is potentially linked to the threat to food security, as well as to people having more time during lockdown.Continue reading “Project information: Urban ecologies, chickens, and covid-19”

This talk was first given at the human geography seminar series at the University of Birmingham (UK) on 22nd January 2019The research drawn on for this talk is from my PhD research at the University of Birmingham, on veganism, a summary of which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f… My PhD included an eight-month archival researchContinue reading “archives, animals & activism: entangling vegan pasts, presents and futures”