Photo by Alexandra Eklöf Gålmark 2016

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Lisa Gålmark är historiker (fil mag), kulturskribent, författare, debattör och en av dem som lagt grunden till den svenska diskussionen om maktrelationer mellan människor och andra varelser: djur. I början av 1990-talet föreslog hon "djurrätt" och "djurrättsfrågor" som begrepp att använda i Birgitta Carlssons inledning till den svenska översättningen av Peter Singers Djurens frigörelse (1992). Hon är författare bland annat till Djurrätt (1997), kulturstudien Skönheter och odjur: en feministisk kritik av djur-människa-relationen (2005) och den kritiska artikelsamlingen När kultur blir natur (2013). Med artiklar, böcker och föreläsningar har hon tagit kritiken av maktförhållandet mellan människor och djur in i kulturvärlden. (Citat från event.) Lisa Gålmark påbörjade sin omställning (vegan in transition) från laktovegetarisk kost till vegankost 1990 och blev vegan 1992.

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Cultural writer/author, debater, lecturer, historian; English studies, economic history and history studies, philosophy studies, theatre studies (BA 1986; MA 1996; 2001; advanced studies 2018) from Uppsala University, Stockholm University. Editor of Cultural Section and Debate, The Animals' Rights Magazine 1989 - 1999. Co-founder of Dog consulting with a gentle ideology/philosophy (IMMI, 1988), Co-founder of Feminist Parents' Network (2003), Co-founder of the Stockholm Free Paper, Editor of Cultural Section, Columnist at the Metro paper 2001 - 2002, initiator and organizer of authors' visits, among others Astrid Lindgren, Eeva Kilpi, Peter Singer, Barbara Noske. Vegan since 1992. Member of the Swedish Writers' Association, The Swedish Union of Journalists, The Guild of Publishers. Member of the PEN, a world association of writers, Swedish Centre.

Her influential book Skönheter & odjur (2005) is the first book in Swedish to analyze the fundamental relationship between humans and the category of animals, including the human oppression of human groups. The book employs historical and sociological perspectives, introducing and devoloping the issues of critical animal studies in general from feminist perspectives, presenting the concepts  of anthro-androcentrism, meatism and meat normativity, and hyperexploitation. In her work, the historical and current expression 'like 'animals'' ("som 'djur'") and  the role of the animal category in Aristotle's theory in Politics are deconstructed. Author of essays and research about Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1996; 2014; 2018; 2021; 2023), ditto in Swedish and a drama relating to Olympe de Gouges, Jeanne-Louise Nanine Vallain, the category of women and the French revolution (2013; 2016; 2020). Contributor to the Swedish Women's Biographical Encyclopaedia. Reviewer of non-fiction and fiction, speaker, editor, translator, author of books on vegetarian and vegan issues, critical  power perspectives in relation to 'animal' ethics, the economic, environmental, and climate crisis, and feminism bringing the critique of the power relationship between humans and animals into the realm of civilization critique.

Editor and writer at ARIMNESTE ANIMA MUSEUM

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