An Independent Scholar in Animal Rights
This includes acting as a bridge between the animal rights movement and the academic field of human-animal studies in the humanities and social sciences.
I serve on the volunteer board of the Culture & Animals Foundation, co-founded the Animals and Society Institute, and was the volunteer executive director of Minding Animals International.
I have contributed to several academic anthologies about Topsy, animal biography, and movement strategy.
Selected Published Work
Kim Stallwood
• ‘A Felicitous Day for Fish’ in Brigid Brophy–Avant-garde Writer, Critic, Activist edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
• ‘Topsy: The Elephant We Must Never Forget’ in Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives edited by André Krebber and Mieke Roscher (Palgrave, 2018)
• ‘Are We Smart Enough to Know When to Take the Political Turn for Animals?’ in Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues edited by Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade & Andrew Woodhall (Palgrave, 2017)
• ‘For All Regardless of Species’ in Satya: The Long View—A reflection on over two decades of activism and where we go from here edited by Sangamithra Iyer (Satya, 2016)
• ‘Animal Rights: Moral Crusade or Social Movement?’ in Thinking The Unthinkable: New Readings in Critical Animal Studies edited by John Sorenson (Canadian Scholars Press, 2014)
• ‘On Recognizing Interconnections’ in Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth edited by Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen (Bloomsbury, 2014)
• ‘The Politics of Animal Rights Advocacy’ in Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism (Edizioni Universitaire di Lettere Economia Diritto S.r.l, 2013). Also served as Guest Editor.
• Author of the narrative that went with the art by Sue Coe about ‘Topsy, An Elephant Never Forgets’ in Blab! Vol. 18 (Fantagraphics Books, 2007)
• ‘A Personal Overview of Direct Action in the United Kingdom and the United States’ in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? — Reflections on the Liberation of Animals edited by Steven Best and Anthony J. Nocella (Lantern, 2003)
• ‘Utopian Visions and Pragmatic Politics: Challenging the Foundations of Speciesism and Misothery’ in Animal Rights: the Changing Debate edited by Robert Garner (Macmillan, 1996)
• ‘The Animal Rights Movement Must Be Politically Pragmatic’ in Animal Rights: Opposing Viewpoints edited by Andrew Harnack (Greenhaven Press, 1996)
Topsy The Elephant
A Biography of an Elephant
Kim is writing the biography of Topsy, the female Asian elephant who was electrocuted to death on Coney Island, New York in 1903. The narrative is written from various sources, from fiction to contemporary science, to tell the story of an individual animal’s life and the larger view of the plight of her kind, and animals generally.
The Kim Stallwood Archive
The British Library, London
In 2020 The British Library in London established the Kim Stallwood Archive, an extensive collection of 800 organisation, people, and subject files, including correspondence, manuscripts, meeting notes, and press cuttings chronicling his involvement with the international Animal Rights Movement dating from the mid-1970s onwards as part of their modern history archive.
The Kim Stallwood Collection
Tier im Recht, Switzerland
The Swiss-based animal law foundation, Tier im Recht, acquired the Kim Stallwood Collection in 2021. The publications, audio-visual materials, artefacts, posters, and much more became part of TIR’s extensive and professionally managed library and archive. Kim’s library of more than 2,000 books is scheduled to also go to TIR’s offices in Zurich.
