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Creating space and time for an affective anthrozoology – developing The Affective Café

How might we resolve what we find difficult, complex or uncomfortable during our research as anthrozoologists?  

This is a question that members of the Exeter Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group at the University of Exeter have been pondering since before the group was established, and the emotional impact of foregrounding the ethical was one of the motivating factors influencing the formation of EASE. Our approach to Anthrozoology is grounded in symbiotic ethics and as such we are deeply concerned with the ways in which we might ethically navigate our own and others’ emotional landscapes during the pursuit of both trans-species research and trans-species co-existence.
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Distance learning is a decolonised means of delivering education: the MA Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter as an illustrative example

For some time now I have been working as a lecturer on the distance learning MA Anthrozoology programme at the University of Exeter. The distance learning nature of this particular programme has been important to me for several reasons. As someone who struggles enormously with being in public places, I find the method of working from home to be of significant benefit (it outright enables me to work). I am also regularly informed by students that they would not have been able to undertake their studies on this programme were it not offered remotely. Additionally, I have experience of being a distance learner myself, having previously completed a distance learning MA in Philosophy (through the University of Wales). In fact, if it were not for the possibility of distance learning I would have been unable to conduct my postgraduate degrees, as it enabled me to manage my capacities, and juggle work and caring responsibilities.
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