Special Issue "“Moving into the Future”: Reconceiving (WHO) Health Promotion to Encompass Human-Animal Relationships"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 13905
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health promotion; human-animal relationships; salutogenesis; mental health; pets
Interests: human-animal relationships and interactions; assistance dogs; leisure and wellbeing; disability and inclusion
Interests: human and animal supports that facilitate social and community inclusion; employment supports
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first international conference on Health Promotion in 1986 led to the endorsement of the Ottawa Charter. The Charter’s focus on health, as an everyday resource and a right that is accessible and attainable by all peoples, continues to be seen as foundational to the understanding and application of health promotion. Yet, to date, the health promotion field has not connected with the “animal turn” that has impacted so many other fields, including theology (Moore, 2014) [2], human geography (Urbanik, 2012) [4], leisure studies (Young & Carr 2018) [5], history (Ingram & Sethna, 2017) [1] and critical theory (Ryan 2015) [3], to name but a few. In addition, health promotion has yet to engage with the wealth of research exploring the role of human–animal interactions and human health.
This Special Issue calls for papers that rethink and reconceive understandings of the Ottawa Charter core concepts: prerequisites for health, skills needed (advocate, enable, mediate), and action areas in ways that move beyond human centricity to encompass the roles that nonhuman others play in human health and wellbeing. We are seeking papers that begin to envisage what a human–animal relationships inclusive Ottawa Charter could look like for the 21st century, including presenting a diversity of multispecies actions and activities that can be framed as “health promotion” for human and nonhuman beings.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
References
[1] Ingram, D.; Sethna, C. Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada, 1st ed.; University of Calgary Press: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2017.
[2] Moore, S. Divinanimality: animal theory, creaturely theology, 1st ed; Moore, S.D., Ed; Fordham University Press: New York, NY, USA, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823263226
[3] Ryan, D. Animal theory: a critical introduction; Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2015.
[4] Urbanik, J. Placing animals. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group: Lanham, MA, USA, 2012.
[5] Young, J.; Carr, N. (2018). Domestic Animals, Humans, and Leisure: Rights, welfare, and wellbeing; Young, J., Carr, N., Eds; Routledge: Abingdon, UK, 2018.
Dr. Janette Young
Dr. Carmel Nottle
Dr. Em Bould
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human–animal relationship
- human–animal interaction
- health promotion
- salutogenesis
- multi-species
- one welfare
- one health
- companion animals
- pets