Mariam works in the field of animal studies, with a particular interest in how the epistemologies and methodologies of the animal sciences shape animals’ lives and the politics of animal-human relations. Her most recent book, DogPolitics: Species Stories and the Animal Sciences (2024, Manchester University Press), introduces and develops the concept of ‘species stories’ as a way to make species visible and legible not as a scientific taxonomic category, but as a technology that is decked with the power to frame, judge, legitimise and delegitimise animals’ behaviours.
Her current research is the product of a long intellectual journey – from science and the body, through new materialism and affect, to the material and non-linguistic dimensions of words, and finally to animals. She is the author of three sole-author books, two co-edited books, three journal special issues,and numerous articles, chapters and other media works. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Geography Department, UCL, based in UCL Anthropocene.
