Lisa Kemmerer
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Lisa Kemmerer, an ecofeminist vegan philosopher-activist, is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Montana State University Billings in the United States. She is known for her work for animal rights and liberation, where she works largely at the crossroads between speciesism and other social justice concerns— feminism, heterosexism, and classism. She has nearly one hundred publications (largely journal articles, anthology chapters, and encyclopedia entries), and is the author or editor of nine books.
Biography
Kemmerer grew up in rural Washington State, and dropped out of college after her first year in order to learn by traveling. She back packed through much of the South Pacific and Asia in her late teens and twenties. [citation needed]
After witnessing religious violence in Northern India and Israel and religious suppression in China, Kemmerer decided to study religions and teach as a way to work toward world peace. She organized a campus animal rights group at Reed College, where she earned a degree in International Studies, and then earned Master of Divinity (Harvard Divinity) before taking a job in Alaska, where she co-organized an animal rights collective. She returned to school in order to be a better activist, and she earned her Ph.D. in philosophy (Glasgow University, Scotland), focusing on animal ethics, and her dissertation became her first book.[citation needed]
After graduation, Kemmerer returned to work at her sister’s animal sanctuary before taking a position at Montana State University, where she teaches philosophy and religious studies.[1]
Anymal
Kemmerer coined the term anymal (a contraction of "any" and "animal", pronounced like "any" and "mal"), to refer to all individuals who are of a species other than humans.[2] Using the term "anymal" avoids the use of:
- "animal" as if human beings were not animals;
- dualistic and alienating references such as "non" and "other"; and
- cumbersome terms such as nonhuman animals and other-than-human animals.[3]
Publications
Books
- Bear Necessities: Protecting Bears through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary. (edited). Leiden: Brill. 2015.
- Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, Activism, and the Quest for Common Ground. Ed. NY: Routledge, 2015.
- Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2014.
- Animals and World Religions. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012.
- Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary. (edited). Salt Lake City: U of Utah, 2012.
- Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices. (edited). Boulder: Paradigm, 2011.
- Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice. Urbana-Champaign: U of IL, 2011.
- Call to Compassion: Reflections on World Religions and Animal Advocacy. (edited with Anthony Nocella). NY: Lantern, 2011
- Curly Tails and Cloven Hooves. Poetry Chapbook. Finishing Line Press. Fall, 2008.
- In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals. Leiden: Brill Academic, 2006.
References
- ^ Lisa Kemmerer, Routledge, Retrieved 20 January 2017
- ^ The Routledge handbook of ecolinguistics. Fill, Alwin,, Penz, Hermine,. New York, NY: Routledge. p. 167. ISBN 9781138920088. OCLC 998799420.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Kemmerer, Lisa (2006). "Verbal Activism: "Anymal"". Society & Animals. 14: 9. doi:10.1163/156853006776137186.