Serrin Rutledge-PriorQueen's University | QueensU · Department of Philosophy
Serrin Rutledge-Prior
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I am a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy. My primary research interests lie in the fields of animal political theory, animal law, and animal and environmental activism. I am also involved in projects centering around non-traditional forms of political participation.
Additional affiliations
January 2023 - May 2023
January 2023 - July 2024
August 2022 - December 2022
Education
February 2019 - December 2022
School of Politics and International Relations - Australian National University
Field of study
- Political Theory; Political Science
Publications
Publications (17)
Participants in the long-standing interest/will theory debate, long in disagreement over the function of rights, are united on this point: while the interest theory can accommodate animals, the will theory cannot. Recent scholarship in animal political theory agrees, accounting for animal rights via the interest theory alone. This article offers th...
Australian local government has rarely been the domain where entrenched and polarising cultural disputes play out, and is instead most often associated with the “3Rs”: roads, rates, and rubbish. However, in recent years, a growing number of local councils from across Australia have taken exceptional and unprecedented steps, sometimes in defiance of...
A major puzzle in contemporary political theory is how to extend notions of justice to the environment. With environmental entities unable to communicate in ways that are traditionally recognised within the political sphere, their interests have largely been recognised instrumentally: only important as they contribute to human interests. In respons...
Jane Mummery and Debbie Rodan, Imagining New Human–Animal Futures in Australia. Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 5. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. xiv, 348pp., 14 fig. col., US$82.95 (hb).
To what extent did the COVID-19 pandemic impact PhD candidates in political science? To what extent were their supervisors aware of this impact? PhD candidates in political science are not strangers to the lack of available and stable academic employment and the potentially isolating experience of research. Our survey of Australian PhD candidates i...
Do all PhD students aspire to an academic career? Do PhD programs appropriately prepare students for the realities of the job market? There is a well-established gap between political science PhD graduates and tenure-track academic postings. The mismatch between PhD graduates and academic positions may point to alternative models of doctoral educat...
What are the key structural barriers that are preventing animals from gaining access to greater legal protection and, thus, greater justice? Animals are protected under welfare and anti-cruelty laws around the world and can even, under an interest theory account of rights, be said to have legal rights. Nevertheless, animals' legal inclusion remains...
Should animal advocates be allowed to publicly display graphic footage of how animals live (and die) in industrial animal use facilities? Cube of truth (‘cube’) demonstrations are a form of animal advocacy aimed at informing the public about the realities of animals’ experiences in places such as slaughterhouses, feedlots, and research facilities,...
Drought is a normal part of the variable Australian climate, occurring on average every thirteen years since 1870. Changes in agricultural policy since the 1980s have attempted to shift more of the drought risk from the state to the producer. During drought, however, governments feel political pressure to support the industry financially. The icono...
The thesis of this paper is that certain nonhuman animals could be conceived of as capable of moral motivation and subsequent moral behavior, with the appropriate behavioral, psychological and cognitive evidence. I argue that a certain notion of morality—morality as the process of conscious, reasoned deliberation over explicit moral concepts—is exc...
Compared to most other advanced democracies, Australia experiences fairly high levels of both intentional and unintentional informal (or invalid) voting. Using survey data obtained predominantly from the Australian Election Study and aggregate-level data derived mainly from the Australian Census, we explore whether young people are more likely to c...