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Professor Barry Smart, PhD

19th April 2019

is currently Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and in the Centre for European and International Studies Research at the University of Portsmouth, UK.  A citizen of Aotearoa/New Zealand and the United Kingdom he has held posts at the University of Auckland and the University of Sheffield and visiting positions at universities in Australia, Japan, and Spain. Current research and publication interests include ethical and environmental aspects of human/nonhuman animal relations; critical pedagogy and species ethics; and ethical, economic, and environmental aspects of veganism.  He is the author of numerous papers including ‘Nonhuman Animal Suffering: Critical Pedagogy and Practical Animal Ethics’ (in Society and Animals 2017) and ‘Suffering Existence: Nonhuman Animals and Ethics’ (in the The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics 2018).  Monographs include Michel Foucault (1985, numerous reprints), Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies (1992), Postmodernity (1993), Facing Modernity: Ambivalence, Reflexivity and Morality (1999), Economy, Culture and Society: A Sociological Critique of Neoliberalism (2003) and Consumer Society: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences (2010). He has also edited Resisting McDonaldization (1999) and Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments I and II (1994 and 1995) and co-edited Handbook of Social Theory (2001) and Observation Methods (2013) and Critical Social Research Methods (2018).