Vicki Kirby is Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales and Visiting Professorial Fellow, Institute of Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research explores the nature/culture division because so many political and ethical decisions are configured in terms of this opposition.
Professor Joseph Pugliese's "Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human” examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities — from soil and orchards to animals and water — are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice.