Associate Professor Annie Potts
School of Humanities
Research interests
- Representations of animals and human-animal relations in popular culture (particularly horror and science/fiction genres);
- ethical consumption and subcultural identity;
- human to animal body modifications;
- depictions of native versus introduced species in New Zealand;
- constructions of ‘pests' in Aotearoa.
Annie is Co-Principal Investigator of the Marsden project "Kararehe: Animals in Art, Literature and Everyday Culture in Aotearoa New Zealand". Her work on "Kararehe" involves researching paradoxical representations of animals in popular culture (NZ magazines and TV), animals in the New Zealand entertainment industry, shifting depictions of hunting and gender, and vegetarian subcultural identity in New Zealand.
She has completed a book for the Reaktion Animal Series called Chicken, an illustrated natural and cultural history of Gallus gallus domesticus (to be published December 2011).
On November 5 2011, Annie was interviewed about this book (and her knowledge of chickenkind) by Kim Hill on National Radio's Saturday Morning programme: you can download the podcast of the interview here.
"Sally", by Yvette Watt
Selected Publications by Annie Potts:
Potts, A., & Armstrong, P. (2010). Hybrid Vigor: Interbreeding Cultural Studies and Human-Animal Studies. In M. de Mello (Ed.), Teaching the Animal: Human-Animal Studies across the Disciplines. New York: Lantern, 3-17.
Potts, A., & Parry, J. (2010). Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex. Feminism & Psychology, 20.1: 53-72.
Potts, A. (2009) Kiwis Against Possums: A Critical Analysis of Anti-Possum Rhetoric in Aotearoa New Zealand. Society & Animals, 17.1: 1-20.
Potts, A., & White, M. (2008) New Zealand Vegetarians: At Odds with their Nation. Society & Animals 16.4: 336-353.
Potts, A. Exploring Vegansexuality: An Embodied Ethics of Intimacy. Ethos: The Practical Ethics Blog. Http://practicalethics.net/blog/author/anniepotts. Posted March 9 2008.
Potts, A. Interview on Radio New Zealand National, December 9 2007.
Potts, A. Interview on Campbell Live, TV3, August 2 2007.
Potts, A., and White, M. Cruelty-Free Consumption in New Zealand: A National Report on the Perspectives and Experiences of Vegetarians and Other Ethical Consumers. Christchurch: NZCHAS, 2007.
Potts, A. The Mark of the Beast: Inscribing Animality through Extreme Body Modification. In P. Armstrong and L. Simmons (ed.). Knowing Animals. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2007, 131-54.
Armstrong P., and A. Potts. Serving the Wild. In A. Smith and L. Wevers (ed.), On Display: New Essays in Cultural Tourism. Wellington , University of Victoria Press , 2004: 15-40.
Contact: annie.potts@canterbury.ac.nz