ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Books
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2025. The Sound of Feathers: Practicing Attentiveness in Multispecies Worlds. Duke University Press.
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2018. The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Edited Books
Gillespie, Kathryn, Patricia J. Lopez (Editors). 2019. Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Gillespie, Kathryn, Rosemary-Claire Collard (Editors). 2015. Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World. New York: Routledge.
Lopez, Patricia J., Kathryn Gillespie (Editors). 2015. Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death. New York: Routledge.
Special Issue
Gillespie, Kathryn, Yamini Narayanan (Guest Editors). 2020. “Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)making of the Settler Nation-State.” Journal for Intercultural Studies. 41 (1). [PDF]
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters
Kathryn, Krithika, and Rosemary. 2024. Citational politics in and through animal geographies: interrogating onto-epistemological diversity. Scottish Geographical Journal, 1–24. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2022. For multispecies autoethnography. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2021. An unthinkable politics for multispecies flourishing within and beyond colonial-capitalist ruins. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. OnlineFirst [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2021. The afterlives of the lively commodity: Life-worlds, death-worlds, rotting worlds. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52(2): 280-295. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2020. Provocations from the field: A multispecies doula approach to death and dying. Animal Studies Journal. 9 (1): 1-31.
Gillespie, Kathryn and Yamini Narayanan. 2020. Introduction to Special Issue: Animal Nationalisms: Multispecies Cultural Politics, Race, and the (Un)making of the Settler Nation-State. Journal for Intercultural Studies. 41 (1): 1-7. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2019. For a politicized multispecies ethnography: Reflections on a feminist geographic pedagogical experiment. Politics and Animals. 5: 1-16. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2019. “Animal welfare.” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition, edited by Audrey Kobayashi. Elsevier. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2018. Placing Angola: Racialisation, settler-colonialism, and anthropocentrism at the Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Angola Rodeo. Antipode. 50 (5): 1267-1289. {PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn, Victoria Lawson. 2017. “My Dog is My Home:” Multispecies care and poverty politics in Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX. Gender, Place, and Culture. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2017. Industrial Slaughter. In Gender: Animals, ed Rheanna S. Parrenas. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2017. Feminist Food Politics. In Gender: Animals, ed Rheanna S. Parrenas. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender. [PDF]
Lopez, Patricia J. & Kathryn Gillespie. 2016. A love story: For “buddy system research” in the academy. Gender, Place, and Culture 23 (12): 1689-1700. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2016. Witnessing animal others: Bearing witness, grief, and the political function of emotion. Hypatia 31 (3): 572-588. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2014. Sexualized violence and the gendered commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production. Gender, Place and Culture, 21(10): 1321-1337. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2011. How happy is your meat? Confronting (dis)connectedness in the ‘alternative’ meat industry. The Brock Review 12(1): 100-128. [PDF]
Non-Refereed Book Chapters
Gillespie, Kathryn and Yamini Narayanan. Forthcoming. Global atmospheres of violence: Shifting terrains of othering in multispecies ecofeminist research. In Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals, second edition, edited by Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen.
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2020. “Animals.” Research Ethics in Human Geography, edited by Helen Wilson and Jonny Darling, SAGE. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2018. The loneliness and madness of witnessing: Reflections from a vegan feminist killjoy. In Animaladies, coedited by Lori Gruen and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey. Bloomsbury. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2017. Intimacy, animal emotion, and empathy: Multispecies intimacy as slow research practice. In Writing Intimacy into Geography, eds P Moss and C Donovan. Ashgate Publishing. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2017. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. In Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence, eds J Urbanik and C Johnston. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2016. Nonhuman animal resistance and the improprieties of live property. In Animals, Biopolitics, Law: Lively Legalities, ed I Braverman. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn & Patricia Lopez. 2015. Introducing Economies of Death. In Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death, eds. P. Lopez & K Gillespie. London: Routledge.
Gillespie, Kathryn & Patricia Lopez. 2015. Economies of Death: An ethical framework and future directions. In Economies of Death: Economic logics of killable life and grievable death, eds. P. Lopez & K Gillespie. London: Routledge.
Collard, Rosemary-Claire & Kathryn Gillespie. 2015. Introduction. In Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World, eds K Gillespie & R-C Collard. New York: Routledge.
Collard, Rosemary-Claire & Kathryn Gillespie. 2015. Doing critical animal geographies: future directions. In Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World, eds K Gillespie & R-C Collard. New York: Routledge.
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2011. Killing with kindness? Institutionalized violence in ‘humane’ slaughter. Nonkilling Geographies, James Tyner and Joshua Inwood (Eds.) Honolulu, Hawaii: Center for Global Nonkilling.
Book Reviews
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2017. Book Review of The Wrongs of Injustice: Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy by Mari Mikkola, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2016. Book Review of Political Ecologies of Meat edited by Jody Emel and Harvey Neo, Economic Geography, 3(2): 66-67. [PDF]
Gillespie, Kathryn. 2015. Book Review of Animal Oppression & Human Violence: Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict by David Nibert, The AAG Review of Books, 3 (2). [PDF]
Recorded Speaking Engagements
Our Hen House Podcast, “Episode 461,” November 10, 2018. Listen here.
Gene Baur and Kathryn Gillespie. “The Ethical and Environmental Impacts of Eating Animals,” Town Hall, Seattle, WA. May 8, 2015, 7:30pm. Listen here.
Kathryn Gillespie and Ross Reynolds. “Do Zoos Really Help Animals in the Wild?” KUOW Public Radio, Seattle, WA. April 21, 2015. Listen here.
Other Publications
2018. A Eulogy for a Cow. Nautilus, Issue 66.
2013. “Untold Testimony: #1389.” Feature article for Our Hen House. March 11. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2013/03/untold-testimony-1389/
2013. “Untold Testimony: Maizy.” Feature article for Our Hen House. February 11. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2013/02/untold-testimony-maizy/
2013. “Book Review: Zooland: The Institution of Captivity by Irus Braverman.” Our Hen House. January 4. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2013/01/book-review-zooland-the-institution-of-captivity-by-irus-braverman/
2012. “Untold testimony: Betsy.” Feature article for Our Hen House. December 6. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/12/untold-testimony-betsy/
2012. “Book Review: The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals by Jenny Brown.” Our Hen House. September 17. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/09/book-review-the-lucky-ones-my-passionate-fight-for-farm-animals-by-jenny-brown/
2012. “Book Review: Sanctuary: Portraits of Rescued Farm Animals by Sharon Lee Hart.” Our Hen House. September 3. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/09/book-review-sanctuary-portraits-of-rescued-farm-animals-by-sharon-lee-hart/
2012. “Book Review: Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.” Our Hen House. April 2. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/04/book-review-fear-of-the-animal-planet-the-hidden-history-of-animal-resistance-by-jason-hribal/
2012. “Book Review: Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight.” Our Hen House. April 30. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/04/book-review-every-twelve-seconds-industrialized-slaughter-and-the-politics-of-sight-by-timothy-pachirat/
2012. “Book Review: Exposing the Big Game: Living Targets of a Dying Sport.” Our Hen House. June 11. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/06/book-review-exposing-the-big-game-living-targets-of-a-dying-sport-by-jim-robertson/
2012. “Sharing Testimony: An Activist Project for Animals.” Our Hen House. July 5. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/07/sharing-testimony-an-activist-project-for-animals/
2012. “Book Review: Animals and World Religions.” Our Hen House. July 16. Available at: http://www.ourhenhouse.org/2012/07/book-review-animals-and-world-religions-by-lisa-kemmerer/