Book review of "Hvem er villest..." in ARR, journal of history of ideas

There is a book review of the Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology "Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man]" in the latest issue of the Norwegian academic journal ARR - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift [... journal of history of ideas], no. 4/2013, on pages 152-155. The review is written by Espen Schaanning and entitled "Dyrs verdi" [The value of animals]. The book review is generally positive, with some exceptions - for instance that Schaanning is critical to the title of the book.

HAS anthology sold by animal rights NGO

The Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man], for which I am one of three editors, is being sold by NOAH - for dyrs rettigheter (NOAH - for animal rights), a Norwegian animal rights NGO, in their webshop.

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Norwegian HAS anthology recommended by animal protection NGO

Norwegian HAS anthology recommended by animal protection NGO

The Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man], for which I am one of three editors, is mentioned in newsletter no. 18, 2013 of the Norwegian animal welfare NGO Dyrevernalliansen (Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance). The book is mentioned as one of three recommended titled published this year. Dyrevernalliansen has some 5.000 members.

Summary page: Media coverage of Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology

Minding Animals Norway has posted an overview of reviews, debate etc. in the wake of the publication of the Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man] - see here. The overview includes mention of (and for the most part links to) no less than twelve media texts/appearances.

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Spartacus:Facsimiles of media coverage of HAS anthology

Minding Animals Norway sells Human-Animal Studies anthology

Minding Animals Norway is selling the Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man] - see here. About 100 NOK per book sold by MAN goes to MAN itself.

Spartacus: Facsimiles of media coverage of HAS anthology

The publishing house Spartacus (with the imprint Scandinavian Academic Press) has now collected much (but not all) of the media coverage of the anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsepoke [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man] on their webpage.

This includes six articles (all in Norwegian):

Book review in the daily Vårt Land: "Sterkt om dyreforbruk" [/Impressive/ on consumption of animals]

NTB Tema: "Menneskenes tidsepoke" [The age of Man]

Chronicle in the daily Klassekampen: "Ut av menneskets vold" [loosely: Out of human custody/detention]

Dag Hessen's chapter excerpts in the weekly Morgenbladet: "Menneskets særpreg" [Man's uniqueness]

Interview in the weekly Morgenbladet: "Koteletter med følelse" [Cutlets with feelings]

Letter to the editor in the daily Dagbladet: "Kunnskapsløst om dyr" [Ignorant/uninformed on animals]

Norwegian HAS anthology on Top 10 sales list

The Human-Animal Studies anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? Råskap mot dyr og natur i antropocen, menneskets tidsalder [Who is wildest in this country here? Brutality towards animals and nature in the Anthropocene, the age of Man], published by Spartacus forlag/Scandinavian Academic Press, is currently no. 10 on the publisher's Top 10-list of bestselling books.

Letter to the editor on wolf mortality in Dagbladet

Friday August 23rd, the day after the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference took place in Oslo, I had a letter to the editor published in the Norwegian national daily Dagbladet, entitled "Et ulveliv" [A wolf's life]. The article presents excerpts from my wolf chapter in the recently published anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? [Who's the wildest one in the country here?], and raises the question of whether wild wolves have a right to die of natural causes, rather than by the human hand. A modest management goal is proposed, namely that at least every second wolf should die of natural causes (versus only one out of five today, in Scandinavia).

The complete text has been posted in my Norwegian language blog Utopisk Realisme. The letter to the editor was written with reference to my chairmanship of Minding Animals Norway and as a University of Stavanger scholar.

A fifth letter in Morgenbladet's debate on human distinctiveness

In the August 9-15 issue of the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet, a fifth letter to the editor following the publication of a book chapter excerpt by professor in biology Dag Hessen is published, entitled "Sannhetens bevissthet" [The consciousness of truth] and written by Norwegian School of Economics student Andreas Masvie, who's also affiliated with "Tankesmien Skaperkraft" [literally "the think tank Creative Power", though "skaperkraft" is also a Christian word meaning something akin to "the power of the Creator"].

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Book chapter excerpt on human distinctiveness in Norwegian weekly

Hessen and Norwegian HAS anthology debated in Morgenbladet

Debate on human distinctiveness continues in Morgenbladet

Two more letters in Morgenbladet's debate on human distinctiveness