Publications

Thesis:

Arathoon, J. (2022) ‘The Geographies of Care and Training in the Development of Assistance Dog Partnerships’. University of Glasgow (Available here).

Journal Articles:

Laurier, E. and Arathoon, J. (2024). Understanding in the canine classroom: learning to ‘lean’. Scottish Geographical Journal (available here).

Arathoon, J., Allen, D., and Hallett, A. (2024), “Too hot to handle”: Making lost and stolen pets present in virtual space. Geoforum, 152. (Available here).

Arathoon, J. (2024), Towards a research agenda for animal and disability geographies: ableism, speciesism, care, space, and place. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(2), 199-217. (Available here).

Arathoon, J. (2023), Using ethnomethodology as an approach to explore human-animal interaction. Area, 55(3), 390-398. (Available here).

Allen, D., Arathoon, J. and Selby-Fell, H. (2022), Experiences of dog theft and spatial practices of search/ing. The Geographical Journal, 188(4), 518-533. (Available here).

Allen, D., Peacock, A. and Arathoon, J. (2019), Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective, Animals, 9(5). (Available - https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050209 ).

Book Chapters:

Arathoon, J. (2021), ‘Researching Animal Geographies through the use of Walking Methods’, in, Hovorka, A., McCubbin, S. and Van Patter, L. (eds.) ‘A Research Agenda for Animal Geographies’. Edward Elgar. (Email me for a copy of my chapter).

Conference Papers:

Arathoon, J. (2024) ACCESS DENIED: How assistance dog handlers negotiate access denial. Animal Geographies Working Group, Work-in-progress Seminar.

Arathoon, J. (2023) ACCESS DENIED: How assistance dog handlers negotiate access denial. CA Day, Loughborough University.

Arathoon, J. (2023) ‘“I am getting confused Mum”: Anthropomorphism, agency, and ‘animal talk’ in training between disabled humans and their assistance dogs. International Society for Anthrozoology Conference 2023. University of Edinburgh.

Arathoon, J. (2023) ‘Towards an Agenda for Animal and Disability Geographies (Studies)’. British Animal Studies Network. Strathclyde University.

Muñoz, D. and Arathoon, J. (2022) ‘The making and remaking of disability in the urban everyday’. [Session organisers]. The Annual RGS Conference. Newcastle University.

Arathoon, J. (2022) Data sharing session: ‘Online assistance dog training’. Atypical Interaction Conference 2022. Newcastle University.

Arathoon, J. (2021) ‘From pet to assistance dog: Care and training in assistance dog partnerships’. Assistance Dogs International annual conference 2021.

Arathoon, J. (2021) ‘Ethnomethodology: Creating Graphic Transcripts of Human-assistance-animal Training Practices’. The Annual RGS Conference. RGS-IBG, London.

Arathoon, J. (2021) ‘From pet to assistance dog: The changing relations of care in the human-dog relationship’. The 30th International Society for Anthrozoology Conference.

Arathoon, J. (2020) ‘The dogs and the doors: Training a dog to open/close a door’. The 2nd Uncommon Worlds Conference: Life with and without animals. University of Derby.

Arathoon, J. (2018) ‘More-than-visual geographies: encountering human-assistance-dog relationships’. Animal Geographies Conference. University of Nottingham.

Magazine/Blog Articles:

Arathoon, J. (2021) From Pet to Assistance Dog: Care and Training in the Development of Assistance Dog Partnerships. Dog A.I.D. Paws For Thought, Winter issue. (Available here).

Arathoon, J. (2021) Training a pet to be an assistance dog. Invited by Prof Nickie Charles, University of Warwick. (Available here).

Arathoon, J. (2021) The geographies of assistance animals. The Geographer, RSGS Magazine, Spring issue. (Available here).

Media Engagements:

BBC Scotland (2021) Do dog theft laws need to be reformed? The Nine. Watch Here.