Australia’s wild donkey herds face many pressures, from being considered as a pest by landholders and the government to being viewed as a raw ingredient for China’s ejiao industry. Danielle will talk about the risks faced by these donkeys.
Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, Professor Celermajer is a social and political theorist who has published extensively on human rights, torture, institutional transformation, and issues of conservation, animal rights, and multispecies justice. She was Formerly a Policy Director and Senior Policy Advisor with the Australian Human Rights Commission, Founding Director of the Masters of Human Rights at the University of Sydney and of the EU-funded Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific), and Director of the EU-funded Torture Prevention Project.
She is the co-author of the paper ‘The Fate of the Illegible Animal: The Case of the Australian Wild Donkey’ Animal Studies Journal, 8(2), 2019, 229-258.