Barbara Miriam Noske is a

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

cultural anthropologist Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The term s ...

and

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

. She introduced the concept ''

animal–industrial complex Animal–industrial complex (AIC) is a concept used by activists and scholars to describe what they contend is the systematic and institutionalized exploitation of animals. The term was adapted from the " Military-industrial complex" outlined by ...

'' in her 1989 book ''Humans and Other Animals''.

Academic career

Noske holds a MA in socio-cultural anthropology and a PhD in philosophy from the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

. In the 1990s, Noske taught

environmental ethics In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...

ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...

and

ecofeminism Ecofeminism integrates feminism and political ecology. Ecofeminist thinkers draw on the concept of gender to analyze relationships between humans and the natural world. The term was coined by the French writer Françoise d'Eaubonne in her 1974 ...

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

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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 The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

. According to Anne Scott, Noske "was among the earliest feminist authors to raise the question of human relationships with other animals in a non-

essentialist Essentialism is the view that objects have a set of attributes that are necessary to their identity. In early Western thought, Platonic idealism held that all things have such an "essence"—an "idea" or "form". In '' Categories'', Aristotle s ...

manner".

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'' (Black Rose Books, 1997)Reviews for ''Beyond Boundaries'': * * * ''Al liftend: Uit het leven van een wereldreizigster'', 2000. * ''Thumbing It: A Hitchhiker's Ride to Wisdom'', 2018.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noske, Barbara 1950 births Dutch animal rights scholars Dutch anthropologists Dutch women anthropologists 20th-century Dutch philosophers 21st-century Dutch philosophers Dutch women philosophers Living people University of Amsterdam alumni