Dog-Human Relationships
Dr. Andrea Breen is the Director of the FIDO Lab at the University of Guelph. The lab has four primary goals:
- To take dogs seriously as sentient, agentic beings who meaningfully contribute to family life
- To challenge anthropocentrism by striving to take the experiences of dogs in human-dog interactions just as seriously as those of humans
- To contribute to methodological advancement in multispecies research in ways which make non-human animals more present in social science research
- To explore the potential of engagement with arts-based, posthumanist, and postqualitative methods for improving dog-human relationships
Indigenist Research Methods
Andrea’s work includes a focus on Indigenist research methodologies, pedagogy, and allyship. Along with Shawn Wilson and Lindsay DuPré, she is co-editor of the (2019) book, Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships.
Storytelling and Narrative Identity
Andrea’s narrative research has examined the ways in which identity develops through interaction with stories. She is especially interested in story-sharing and identity development as resistance to oppression and structural violence.
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