Les Mitchell

Les Mitchell is a Hunterstoun Fellow of the University of Fort Hare, a
Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and a member of Institute
for Critical Animal Studies (Africa). With a PhD from Rhodes University,
his writing appears in a range of academic journals as well as in
chapters in various books relating to animals and was co-editor of
Animals, Race and Multiculturalism – Contemporary Moral and Political
Debates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). His research interests include
nonhuman animals, discourses, power, critical realism, ethics, genocide,
moral disengagement and open education. He is an Alternatives to
Violence facilitator as well as a wandering hiker.