BOOKS

Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements (2024) w/ Gwen Hunnicutt, Kenneth Mentor eds. (Routledge).

The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (2024) (Sydney University Press).

The Rise of Critical Animal Studies - From the Margins to the Centre (2014) w/ Nik Taylor eds. (Routledge).

Animals as Biotechnology - Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (2010) (Routledge) (see this page for info.).

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JOURNAL ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

'Sustainable diets' Haffner, T. Martin, R. Trewern, J., Morpeth, A., Arens, U., Kirkham, L., Pettinger, C., Latoy, E. & R. Twine in Manual of Dietetic Practice 7th edition (2026) Hickson, M., Frost, G., Maslin, K., Wedlake, L & D. Mellor (eds.) John Wiley & Sons.

Espinosa, R.,  Krattenmacher, J., Twine, R., Sanders, E. & Ripple, WJ (2025) 'A High-Powered Study Confirming the Misleading Nature of the Dublin Declaration' Environmental Science and Policy

Krattenmacher, J., Espinosa, R., Sanders, E., Twine, R. & Ripple, WJ (2024) 'The Dublin Declaration: Gain for the Meat Industry, Loss for Science', Environmental Science and Policy. >> open access: download

‘Toward Multispecies Justice: Unveiling Violence and Exploitation in the Animal-Industrial Complex’ Hunnicutt, G., Twine, R. & Mentor, K. in Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements (2024) Hunnicutt, G., Twine, R. & Mentor, K. (eds.). London: Routledge.

'Meat scientists fight back! What the Dublin declaration tells us about the role of academia in the animal-industrial complex' in Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex: Human-Animal Entanglements (2024) Hunnicutt, G., Twine, R. & Mentor, K. (eds.). London: Routledge.

Twine, R. (2024) 'Val Plumwood’s contribution to intersectional veganism', TRACE ∴ Journal for Human-Animal Studies, 10, 220–239.

'Ecomasculinities, boyhoods and critical animal pedagogy', in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals (2024) edited by Chloë Taylor. London: Routledge.

Kasprzycka, E., Wrigley, C., Searle, A. and Twine, R. (2023) 'Rhetorics of Species Revivalism and Biotechnology – A Roundtable Dialogue', Animal Studies Journal, 12 (2): 190-219.open access: download

Krattenmacher, J., P. Casal, J. Dutkiewicz, E. Huchard, E. Sanders, N. Treich, D. Wadiwel, A. Williams, L. Bègue, APA. Cardilini, K. Dhont, J. Dugnoille, R. Espinosa, M. Gagliano, D. Lairon, M. Maheta, L. Mendez, P. Nowicki, TP. Quinn, O. Razum, WJ. Ripple, H. Rothgerber and R. Twine. (2023) 'Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition' (Comment). The Lancet Planetary Health 7, 5: E354-E355. open access: download

Twine, R. (2023) 'Where are the nonhuman animals in the Sociology of Climate Change?'  Society and Animals 31: 105-130.

Capilé, K., Parkinson, C., Twine, R., Erickson, LK. &  Paixão, RL. (2021) 'Exploring the Representation of Cows on Dairy Product Packaging in Brazil and the United Kingdom', Sustainability 13 (15): 8418. open access: download

'Biopower and the Biotechnological Framing of the Animal Body', in The Animals Reader: The Essential Classic and Contemporary Writings (Second Edition) (2021) edited by Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald. 

'Masculinity, Nature, Ecofeminism and the ‘Anthropo’cene', in Men, Masculinities and Earth: Contending with the (m)Anthropocene (2021), edited by Martin Hultman and Paul Pulé.(Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

Twine, R. (2021) 'Emissions from Animal Agriculture - 16.5% is the New Minimum Figure', Sustainability 13 (11): 6276.  Open access: download But please also read this amendment and this blog post which amends and extends the findings of the article. This research is also updated in the above book The Climate Crisis and Other Animals

Morris, C. et. al.  (2021) 'Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems' [by Carol Morris, Minna Kaljonen, Kadri Aavik, Bálint Balázs, Matthew Cole, Ben Coles, Sophia Efstathiou, Tracey Fallon, Mike Foden, Eva Giraud, Mike Goodman, Eleanor Hadley Kershaw, Richard Helliwell, Pru Hobson-West, Matti Hayry, Piia Jallinoja, Mat Jones, Taija Kaarlenkaski, Maarit Laihonen, Anu Lahteenmaki-Utela, Saara Kupsala, Annika Lonkila, Lydia Martens, Renelle McGlacken, Josephine Mylan, Mari Niva, Emma Roe, Richard Twine, Markus Vinnari, and Richard White] Humanities and Social Sciences Communication 8, 38. open access: download 

Twine, R. (2018) 'Materially Constituting a Sustainable Food Transition: The Case of Vegan Eating Practice', Sociology 52 (1): 166-181.

Twine, R. (2017) 'A Practice Theory Framework for Understanding Vegan Transition', Animal Studies Journal  6 (2): 192-224.

'Develando  el  “complejo  animal-industrial”.  ¿un Concepto  y  un  método  para  los estudios críticos animales?' in Andreatta, MM., Pezetta, S. and Heguera, ER. (eds) CRÍTICA Y ANIMALIDAD: Cuando el Otro aúlla (2017) Latin American Institute for Critical Animal Studies.

'Negotiating social relationships in the transition to vegan eating practices' in Potts, A. (ed.) Meat Culture (2016) Brill.

Probyn-Rapsey, F. et. al. (2016) 'A Sustainable Campus: The Sydney Declaration on Interspecies Sustainability', [by Probyn-Rapsey, Fiona; Donaldson, Sue; Ioannides, George; Lea, Tess; Marsh, Kate; Neimanis, Astrida; Potts, Annie; Taylor, Nik; Twine, Richard; Wadiwel, Dinesh; and White, Stuart]  Animal Studies Journal 5 (1): 110-151. open access: download

Twine, R. (2015) 'Understanding Snacking through a Practice Theory Lens', Sociology of Health and Illness 37 (8): 1270–1284.

Twine, R. (2014) 'Vegan Killjoys at the Table - Contesting Happiness and Negotiating Relationships with Food Practices', Societies 4 (4): 623-639. open access: download

‘Ecofeminism and Veganism - revisiting the question of universalism’ in Gruen, L & Adams, CJ. (eds.) Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (2014) Bloomsbury Academic Press

‘On the limits of food autonomy – rethinking choice and privacy’ with Stephanie Jenkins, in Taylor, N. & Twine, R. (eds.) The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre (2014) London: Routledge.

‘Locating the critical in Critical Animal Studies’ with Nik Taylor, in Taylor, N. & Twine, R. (eds.) The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre (2014) London: Routledge.

Twine, R. (2013) 'Animals on Drugs – Understanding the role of pharmaceutical companies in the animal-industrial complex',  Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 10 (4): 505-514 (Special Issue on Bioethics and Animals).

Twine, R. (2013) 'Is Biotechnology Deconstructing Animal Domestication? Movements toward 'Liberation'', Configurations (Journal of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts), 21 (2): 135-158. [Special Issue on Animal Biotechnology and the Liberatory Imaginary, conceived by myself and co-edited with Neil Stephens].

Twine, R. and N. Stephens. (2013) “Do Animal Biotechnologies Have a Latent Liberatory Imaginary?” Configurations 21 (2): 125-133.

'Addressing the ‘Animal-Industrial Complex’ in Corbey, R. & Lanjouw, A. (eds.) The Politics of Species (2013) Cambridge University Press.

Twine, R. (2012) 'Revealing the ‘Animal-Industrial Complex’ – A Concept & Method for Critical Animal Studies?', Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10 (1): 12-39.

Twine, R. (2010) 'Genomic Natures Read through Posthumanisms', The Sociological Review 58 (S1): 175-195. (also published in an edited monograph called Nature After the Genome by Parry, S. & Dupre, J. eds.)

'Broadening the Feminism in Feminist Bioethics' in Scully, J, Baldwin-Ragaven, L & Fitzpatrick, P. (eds.) Feminist Bioethics: At the centre, at the margins (2010) John Hopkins Press.

Twine, R. (2010) 'Intersectional Disgust? - Animals and (Eco) Feminism', Feminism and Psychology 20 (3): 397-406.
 
Twine, R. (2007) 'Searching for the Win-Win? - Animals, Genomics and Welfare', International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 16 (3): 1-18.

Twine, R. (2007) 'Thinking Across Species - A Critical Bioethics Approach to Enhancement', Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 28 (6): 509-523.

Twine, R. (2007) 'Animal Genomics and Ambivalence: A Sociology of Animal Bodies in Agricultural Biotechnology', Genomics, Society and Policy 3 (2): 99-117.

'Agricultural Animals as Targets of Genetic Progress - Engaging with Animal Scientists about the Impact of Genomics' in Kaiser, M. & Lien, M. (eds.) Ethics and the Politics of Food (2006) Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Twine, R. (2005) 'Constructing a Critical Bioethics by Deconstructing Culture/Nature Dualism', Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 8 (3): 285-295.

Twine, R. (2005) 'From Warnock to the Stem Cell Bank - Evaluating the UK's Regulatory Measures for Stem Cell Research', Journal of International Biotechnology Law 2 (1): 1-14. 

Twine, R. (2002) 'Physiognomy, Phrenology and the Temporality of the Body', Body and Society 8 (1): 67-88.

Twine, R. (2001) 'Ma(r)king Essence: Ecofeminism and Embodiment', Ethics and the Environment 6 (2): 31-58.

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FURTHER WRITINGS - reports, blogs, interviews, letters, forewords, policy briefs, non-peer reviewed articles

(2026) Foreword to Vegan Voices in Education: Creating Inclusive School Cultures for Ethical Diversity by Heather Marshall, Springer.

(2025) Sustainable diets - Reducing animal sourced food consumption. Edge Hill University. https://doi.org/10.25416/edgehill.30384742

(2024) Foreword to Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders: Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals edited by Paula Arcari London: Routledge.

w/ Parkinson, C. (2024) Reflections on a decade of CfHAS - blog post for CfHAS

(2024) ''Alien' Disclosure and Critical Animal Studies' blog post for CfHAS

(2021) Foreword to Law and veganism: International perspectives on the human right to freedom of conscience edited by Rowley, J. & Prisco, C. Rowman & Littlefield.

(2021) 'Emissions from Animal Agriculture: Not 18%, Not 14.5%, Not 16.5%, Not 15.6% but presently incalculable' blog post for CfHAS

(2021) 'Critical Animal Studies and the work of Decolonizing (Academic) Anthropocentrism' blog post for CfHAS

(2020) Knight, A. et. al. 'Manifesto "Transition to plant-based diets will help us fight the pandemic"' Latin American Journal of Nature Rights and Animal Law open access link

(2020) 'Respecting Children, Respecting Species' article for Bifrost Environmental Humanities Web-site 

(2020) 'Veganuary and Vegan Culture' Blog post for The Vegan Society Web-site

(2019) w/ Parkinson, C. & Griffin, N. Pathways to Veganism - Final Project Report (Peer Reviewed)

(2017) 'Remembering Tom Regan, 1938-2017' blog post for CfHAS

(2016) Blog post for the Animals in Society Group series 'What is Animal Studies?'

(2014) An interview alongside Nik Taylor and by Dinesh Wadiwel - The Rise of Critical Animal Studies interview

(2013) 'Some Brief Thoughts on Changing Food Practices'  Blog post for the Humane Research Council 

w/ Stanescu, V. (2012). Post Animal Studies: The Future(s) of Critical Animal Studies. Journal for Critical Animal Studies 10 (4), pp4-19.

w/ Ellis, C., McKay, R, O’Sullivan, S., Twine, R. & Weller, K. (2012) “The Animals & Society Institute Fellowship: Catalyzing Work in Human-Animal Studies” (Guest Editor’s Introduction), Society & Animals vol20, no2, pp117-122.

w/ Daly, J. (2011) Reducing meat and dairy consumption: easier said than done, or easier done than said? Online article at The Conversation (November)

(2011) ‘Is Biotechnology obscuring the view?’ Growing Green International  No27 (Summer), pp18-19

(2011) 'Meaty Challenge' Letter published in New Scientist 10 December, p.33

(2010) ‘The industrialisation of animals – what happened to ethics?’ The Scavenger http://www.thescavenger.net/ (December 2010 issue)

(2010) Blog entry on the Earthscan (publisher of my book) web-site – 10th November 2010, entitled  ‘A sustainability that deconstructs and reconstructs the human’

(2009) Contributor to Anker, S & Talasek, J.D. (eds.) Visual Culture and Bioscience UMBC - Proceedings from a Virtual Symposium

w/ Holloway, L (2008) "Animal Engineering" Food Ethics Vol.3, No.3, pp.30-32.

(2005) Report of the First Meeting of the European Project on Biometric Identification Technology Ethics (BITE Project)

(2002) "Ecofeminism and the 'New' Sociologies - A Collaboration Against Dualism" PhD dissertation [supervised by Dr. Gail Hawkes & former President of the British Sociological Association Professor Sue Scott. Externally examined by the late Dr. Anne Witz.]

(2001) "Ecofeminisms in Process " formerly online at ecofem.org/journal

(1997) "Masculinity, Nature, Ecofeminism" formerly online at ecofem.org/journal

[see also Hall, L (2005) "Reflections on the Masculine Hegemon: A Reply to Richard Twine" online at ecofem.org/journal]

book reviews

Wolf Conflicts: A Sociological Study. by Ketil Skogen, Olve Krange, and Helene Figari. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. American Journal of Sociology Vol.124, No.6, (2019), pp.1942-1944.

Defining Critical Animal Studies - An Intersectional Social Justice Approach for Liberation by Nocella, A.J., Sorenson, J., Socha, K. & Matsuoka, A.(eds.) Animal Studies Journal Vol.3, No.2, (2014), pp.30-35. 

Leonardo’s Choice – Genetic Technologies and Animals by Gigliotti, C. (ed.) Genomics, Society and Policy Vol.5, No.2, (2009), pp.87-90.

On Cloning by Harris, J. Ethical Perspectives - Journal of the European Ethics Network Vol.12, No.3, (2005), pp.410-413.

Science, Seeds and Cyborgs – Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life by Bowring, F. Social Studies of Science Vol.35, No.1, (2005), pp.165-168.

Environmental Culture by Plumwood, V. Environmental Values Vol.12, No.4, (2003), pp.535-537.

Genetic Imaginations- Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research by Glasner, P & Rothman, H (eds.) Technology Analysis & Strategic Management Vol. 12, No.4, (2000), pp.541-542.

Ecological Feminism by Warren, K (ed.) Environmental Values Vol. 6, No.3, (1997), pp.370-371.

PODCASTS

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