Kieran O’Mahony
Kieran O’Mahony
QUALIFICATIONS
2012 Ph.D., Environmental Planning, Cardiff University.
2004 M.Sc., Environmental (Countryside and Protected Area) Management, Birkbeck, University of London.
2001 B.A (Hons)., Sociology (In African and Asian Studies), University of Sussex.
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Human-animal relations; Multispecies methods; Biosecurity and wildlife management; Rewilding, ecological restoration and cultural landscapes; Moral ecologies; Environmental change, memory and time; More-than-human health and care
RESEARCH PROFILE
Engaging with literature from geography, anthropology, the environmental humanities and STS, my research explores a range of human-animal relations and multitemporal, multispecies landscapes. I am particularly interested in the sociotechnological practices, spatial-temporal politics and moral ecologies that co-constitute conservation practice, wildlife management and biosecurity.
I have explored such interests in a variety of regional contexts and in relation to different organisms and their lifeworlds. As a researcher on the ERC BOAR Project, "Veterinarization of Europe? Hunting for Wild Boar Futures in the Time of African Swine Fever", my primary research focus has been (re)introduced wild boar in the UK, and the contested feral landscapes that have unfolded around their contemporary presence. I have also been conducting research in Japan, considering the emergent ecologies of islands and how humans and nonhumans respond to transforming environments. Throughout my research, I am keen to work through novel, multi-modal methods and interdisciplinary knowledges.
Special Issues
2023 Recollecting the Everyday: Emotion, Memory and Spaces of Mundane Practice Special Issue of Emotion, Space and Society. (co-editors Walker, Amy- Boyer, Kate)
2020 Rewilding ‘Feral Political Ecologies' Special Section in Conservation and Society 18(2). (co-editors Wynne-Jones, Sophie- Clancy, Cara- Holmes, George- O’Mahony, Kieran- Ward, Kim J)
Journal Articles
2024 What triggers change in antimicrobial use? EuroChoices, 23(2): 22-28. (co-authors Enticott, Gareth- Grondal, Hedwig- Hemonic, Anne- Rouget, Christine- Rousset, Natalie- Shortall, Orla- Sutherland, Lee-Ann)
2024 Feeding time(s): Patient urgence and the careful temporalities of antimicrobial resistance. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(3): 994-1014. (co-author Enticott, Gareth)
2023 The many boar identities: understanding difference and change in the geographies of European wild boar management Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-23. (co-authors von Essen, Erica- Szczygielska, Marianna- Gieser, Thorstem- Vaté, Virginie- Arregui, Anibal- Broz, Ludek)
2023 Coexistence in ecological corridors: understanding tolerance of wolves in the Northwestern Apennines, Italy. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 28 (1): 53-69. (co-authors Bongi, Paolo- Baruffetti, Milena- Gazzola, Andrea)
2023 Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice. Emotion, Space and Society, 48: 1-6. (co-authors Walker, Amy- Boyer, Kate)
2022 Inhabiting Forest of Dean borderlands: feral wild boar and dynamic ecologies of memory and place. Emotion, Space and Society. 45: 1-12
2022 ‘Natural Born Carers’? Reconstituting gender identity in the labour of calf care. Journal of Rural Studies, 95: 362-372. (co-authors Enticott, Gareth- Shortall, Orla- Sutherland, Lee-Ann)
2021 Wild boar events and the veterinarization of multispecies coexistence. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2: 1-10. (co-authors Broz, Ludek- Arregui, Anibal)
2020 Blurring boundaries: Feral rewilding, biosecurity and contested wild boar belonging in England. Conservation and Society, 18(2): 114-125.
2020 Feral political ecologies?: The biopolitics, temporalities and spatialities of rewilding. Conservation and Society. 18(2): 71-76. (co-authors Wynne-Jones, Sophie- Clancy, Cara- Holmes, George- Ward, Kim J)
2018 Lupine becomings: Tracking and assembling Romanian wolves through multi-sensory fieldwork. Society and Animals. 26(2): 107-129. (co-authors Corradini, Andrea- Gazzola, Andrea)
Ongoing Projects and Grants
2021- Veterinarization of Europe? Hunting for wild boar futures in the time of African swine fever. European Research Council Consolidator Grant (866350). Postdoctoral Researcher.
Past Projects and Grants
2024 Comparing strategies of wildlife biosecurity and coexistence between Japan and the UK. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Small Grant Award. Principal Investigator.
2022 Historic and future management of wild boar in Japan. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Small Grant Award. Principal Investigator.
2020-2021 ROADMAP- Rethinking of antimicrobial decision-systems in the management of animal production. EU Horizon 2020 Grant. Postdoctoral Researcher.
2015-2020 Feral Bo(a)rderlands: Living with and governing wild boar in the Forest of Dean, England. UK Economic and Social Research Council PhD Scholarship. Postgraduate Researcher
Editorial Work
2021- Society and Animals, Associate Editor
Invited Talks, Public Lectures or Roundtables
2023 September, 28. Feral Landscapes and the Messy Biopolitics of Resurgent (Porcine) Life. Contested Spaces: Animals, Activists and the Law. Ruling on Nature Project Seminar. Paris.
2023 June, 01-02. More-than-human Adaptation and Toxic Zones: From Fukushima to Hessen. Shrinking Space and Toxic Zones workshop. Panel for Planetary Thinking. Hessen. (co-presenter Waite, Jason)
2020 October, 20. From Sheepscapes to Swinescapes: Presences, Absences and Feral Transitions in the Forest of Dean, England. Hunting, Haunting and the Wayward Boar seminar. Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University. Aarhus.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
2024 June, 23-26. Uncertain methods, elusive lives: exploring the methodological and relational horizons of doing research with more-than-humans. Panel session. European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) Biannual Conference. Barcelona. (Co-conveners Keil, Paul G- Chu, Kimberley)
2024 June, 16-19. Symbiotic methods: more-than-human companions for knowing. Panel session. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)/Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Joint Conference. Amsterdam. (Co-conveners Keil, Paul G- Szczygielska, Marianna- Kuen, Laura)
2024 March, 11-12. Veterinarization of Society? Care and Control Beyond Animal Health. Workshop. Prague. (Co-organisers Broz, Ludek- Szczygielska, Marianna)
2023 March, 21-23. Pig worlds: understanding porcine multiplicity in the Anthropocene. Panel session. Relations and beyond: Annual Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Rovaniemi. (Co-conveners Keil, Paul G- Vate, Virginie)
2018 Aug, 28-31. Everyday landscapes of memory. Panel session. Royal Geographical Society-International Board of Geographers Annual Conference. Cardiff. (Co-conveners Walker, Amy- Boyer, Kate)
2017 Aug, 29- September 1. Decolonising wild-life: critical geographies of rewilding. Panel Session. Royal Geographical Society-International Board of Geographers Annual Conference. London. (Co-conveners Clancy, Cara- Ward, Kim J- Wynne-Jones, Sophie)
2017 March, 23-25. Royal Geographical Society Postgraduate Mid-Term Conference. Organising committee member. Cardiff. (Co-organisers Owen, Jen- Baker, Lucy- Dickinson, Melissa)
Consultancy and Expert Advice
2024 Effectiveness of methods for controlling wild boar movements. Report for European Food Standard Agency (EFSA). (co-written by the ENETWILD CONSORTIUM)
Public Outreach and Online essays
2024 Rootling.place (a website for wandering and wondering with pigs). (co-designers Szczygielska, Marianna- Kuen, Laura- Keil, Paul G)
2022 Feral ethics: Thinking feral with pigs. New Alphabet School (HKW). (co-authors Szczygielska, Marianna- Kuen, Laura- Keil, Paul G)
2017 Wild boar in the Dean: Welcome back? ECOS: British Association of Nature Conservationists. 38 (1).
