Our aims:
To connect geographers working with and for animals across the discipline in a space dedicated to animals specifically.
To facilitate collaborations and community-building between geographers working with and for animals across political, social, cultural, economic, ecological, environmental, urban, rural, and other kinds of geography.
To promote intra-disciplinary research across animal geographies through events, workshops, conference sessions, and online communities.
To formalise the place of animal geographies as an established sub-discipline and recognise its growth and importance through the RGS working group.
To provide a forum for animal geographers in the UK and beyond, and across career stages to foster communication, networking, and community.
To create a platform for dialogue between academic researchers, charities and NGOs, policymakers, and other interested parties in the place of animals in the world.
To generate cross-disciplinary collaboration with similar working groups in other social science disciplines.
To promote the public translation and dissemination of animal geographies research.
To explore the links and potentials of animal geographies in pedagogical and teaching practices at university, college, secondary, and primary level.
Please find our latest AGM minutes here.
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Who We Are
The Animal Geographies Working Group (AGWG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) brings together geographers and others interested in human-animal relations, and the spaces, practices, and experiences of animals.