Barbara Noske

Barbara Miriam Noske (born 1950) is a Dutch cultural anthropologist and philosopher. She introduced the concept animal–industrial complex.

Barbara Noske
Born1950
NationalityNetherlands
EducationMA in socio-cultural anthropology; PhD in philosophy
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam
Known forCoining the term animal–industrial complex
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology, Critical Animal Studies, Philosophy
InstitutionsYork University; University of Sydney

Academic career

Noske 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 in Toronto while a research fellow in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She then worked as a research fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences 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  • Huilen met de wolven: Een interdisciplinaire benadering van de mens-dier relatie (Unpublished thesis, 1988)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)
  • Thumbing It: A Hitchhiker's Ride to Wisdom (2018) - available from Gleebooks (www.gleebooks.com.au/home) or direct from the author at PO Box 3196, St Pauls, NSW 2031, Australia

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