Dr. Mine Yıldırım’s new article has been published in Animals (Q1) journal.

Dr. Mine Yıldırım, a faculty member of the Core Program at Kadir Has University, has published an article titled “When Care Faces Violence: Anticipatory Grief, Chronic Vigilance, and Ambiguous Loss Among Street Dog Care-Givers in Istanbul” in the journal Animals (Q1).

In this second article by Mine Yıldırım published in Animals, she discusses how the care work of street animal caregivers in Turkey has been shaped in the face of violence and euthanasia discourse/practices following the 2024 amendments to the Animal Protection Law. She explores this through the findings of her qualitative field research, which focused on anticipatory grief, ambiguous loss, and chronic hyperarousal. The study makes an important contribution by revealing the emotional burdens of caregivers and the ethical/emotional tensions that accumulate in their daily lives.

We congratulate our professor and hope that her work will continue to make valuable contributions to the fields of critical animal studies and care labor, as well as to public discourse.

To access the article: https://doi.org/10.3390/ani16040559