Summary of book review now online

My book review of Rune Ellefsen´s Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr (Oslo: Inspirator Forlag/Fritt Forlag), published in Sosiologi i dag 45(1), pp. 98–103 (print version), has now been published online. Full text is available for subscribers only. Online summary here.

Book review for Sosiology idag proof-read yet again; reference

Today I have conducted yet another proof-reading (now page proofs) of my forthcoming review of Rune Ellefsen´s book. Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2015. Rune Ellefsen 2013. Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr. Oslo: Inspirator Forlag/Fritt Forlag. Book review. Sosiologi i dag 45(1) (Special Issue on „Miljøsosiologi“ [Environmental sociology]): 98–103.

Peer review conducted for sociology journal

Last autumn I conducted a peer review for the Norwegian academic journal Sosiology idag.

Book review for sociology journal proof-read (again)

Roughly a couple of weeks ago I proof-read (for the second time) my forthcoming book review for Sosiology idag on Rune Ellefsen´s book Med rett til å pine.

Animal protection book review revised

A few days ago I revised my book review of Rune Ellefsen's book  Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr, an academic, Norwegian animal protection book. No major changes, mainly a few clarifications.

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Book review of Rune Ellefsen's book finished

Book review of Rune Ellefsen's book finished

Yesterday I finished and submitted my book review of Rune Ellefsens book Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr, an academic, Norwegian animal protection book.

Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming. Rune Ellefsen 2013. Med lov til å pine: Om bruk og beskyttelse av dyr. Oslo: Inspirator Forlag/Fritt Forlag. Book review. Sosiologi i dag (Special Issue on „Miljøsosiologi“ [Environmental sociology]).

HAS anthology mentioned in letter to the editor in Dagbladet

The recently published Norwegian Human-Animal Studies anthology I am a co-editor of, 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], is mentioned in a letter to the editor by Ragnhild Sollund and published in Norway's third biggest daily, Dagbladet, today, entitled "Kunnskapsløst om dyr" [loosely; Ignorant about animals]. Excerpt (my translation):

If Forr [pictured below] wants to get informed about easily available Norwegian research in this field [Human-Animal Studies], he can in addition [to reading the debated special issue of Sosiologi idag] read the book Hvem er villest i landet her? (eds. Ragnhild Sollund,  Morten Tønnessen and Guri Larsen, published by Spartacus/Scandinavian Academic Press this spring).

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Letter to the editor in Norwegian daily Dagbladet: "Aren't animals among society's weakest?" (July 16th)

Letter to the editor in Norwegian daily Dagbladet: "Aren't animals among society's weakest?"

Today a letter to the editor by me is published in the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, which is Norway's third biggest newspaper. The whole text, entitled "Er ikke dyr blant samfunnets svakeste?" [Aren't animals among society's weakest?] is posted in my Norwegian language blog Utopisk Realisme. The letter to the editor is written in response to a commentary article published yesterday, entitled "I bås og samfunn" [In cubicle and society] and written by Dagbladet's staff journalist Gudleiv Forr. Forr comments on the special issue of the Norwegian academic journal Sosiologi idag, "Dyr i samfunnet" [Animals in society], where I contribute with a book review of Ulvekonflikter [Wolf conflicts], written by three sociologists. Forr basically claims that sociologists should not waste their time on animals, but be occupied only with improving conditions for human beings, as they used to.

My letter to the editor is signed M.T., Chair of Minding Animals Norway and Associate professor in philosophy at University of Stavanger.

Book review on wolf conflicts published online in sociology journal

The Norwegian academic journal Sosiologi idag [Sociology today] has published its second issue of 2013 online. It is a Special Issue on "Dyr i samfunnet" [Animals in society], guest-edited by Ragnhild Sollund, and includes my book review of Skogen et al.'s Ulvekonflikter [Wolf conflicts].

Corrrection to my latest post on this review: The Norwegian-language summary does indeed appear - at least online (see here).

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Book review on wolf conflicts completed - summary here

Reference for forthcoming book review on wolf conflicts

Reference for forthcoming book review on wolf conflicts

Some three weeks back I proof-read my book review which is to appear in the Norwegian academic journal Sosiologi idag [Sociology today] this autumn. The review will appear with no title, and no summary (correction to previous post). Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2013. Ketil Skogen, Olve Krange og Helene Figari 2013, Ulvekonflikter – en sosiologisk studie, Oslo 2013: Akademika forlag. Book review. Sosiologi idag 43(2): 117-122.

Book review on wolf conflicts revised

Yesterday I revised the book review I completed April 30th/May 1st, on Norwegian wolf conflicts. It will be published without the summary (in Norwegian plus English) that I wrote, and with no title. The other substantial revision implied not referring to my own work on wolf management. The revisions were made on request by the guest editor.

Book review on wolf conflicts completed - summary here

This night (sic) I finished a book review on the recently published book Ulvekonflikter – en sosiologisk studie [Wolf conflicts - a sociological study]. My review - which might have to be either shortened (in order to qualify as a book review) or rewritten (in order to qualify as a book essay) - is submitted  to the Norwegian academic journal Sosiologi idag [Sociolocy today], on invitation (by guest editor Ragnhild Sollund), and amounts to some 2.500 words as of now.

Full reference to the book reviewed:

Skogen, Ketil, Olve Krange & Helene Figari 2013. Ulvekonflikter – en sosiologisk studie [Wolf conflicts - a sociological study]. Oslo: Akademika forlag.

While being a monograph in form, and (re)written for the occasion, this book envelopes material from a number of already published English language journal articles, etc. I consider it an important contribution in the Norwegian context.

My review includes an English language summary, which reads like this:

Summary The book Ulvekonflikter [Wolf conflicts] summarizes research conducted by the three authors, which is based on interviews with informants in five Norwegian municipalities. The book is well-written – and important. As they stress, the controversy about wolves can only be explained by taking the larger social context into account, and by interpreting everything expressed with regard to wolves in light of central dimensions of conflict and processes of change. Among opponents of the wolf, it is particularly associated with urbanity and an expanding, educated middle class. Unlike in earlier times, contemporary wolf conflicts are predominantly conflicts between people. Ulvekonflikter succeeds in establishing such basic claims while also being nuanced in its presentation in a way that does virtually all stakeholders justice. Through analysis of beliefs there is broad support for as well as beliefs surrounded by controversy, this book provides valuable advice to policy and management. 

Keywords: Wolf management, attitudes to wolves, beliefs about wolves, wolves as symbols, predators, nature view