In this episode Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz discuss animals and the news. We discuss different types of news as well as some of the challenges that come with creating news content that focuses on animals.
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#TheAnimalTurn
In this blog Claudia reflects on the fate of baboons killed at Nürnberg Zoo in 2025. She questions the relationship between animals and zoos making simple observations that while zoos inform science they are also places that breed and kill animals.
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In S8E8 Lynda Korimboccus used this quote from Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole to discuss the disconnect between how children consume animals as beloved characters and the ways in which they consume them as meat. What are your thoughts on how media present animals to kids?
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Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. They touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics.
www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e8
Herre de Bondt writes a blog entry highlighting some of the ways in which street dogs in India emerged during conversations about cities and health in Season 7.
Read the full entry: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/inclusi...
The quotes shared during S8E7, focused on social media, all speak to the tensions of freedom and captivity.
In your experience, what role does social media play in animals' lives?
Just had a great conversation with Claudia Hirtenfelder of @theanimalturn.bsky.social. We talked #zoos, #war, #elephants, hungry #animals, and much more.
Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, & Siobhan Speiran unfurl the complex relations of social media and animals. They probe how social media packages animals as content, why that changes real lives, and where activism, policy, and platform design can push back.
www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e7
Check out this guest post by ethicist Carlo Salzani in response to FarmKind's newly launched "Forget Veganuary" campaign.
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Learn more about the original #veganuary campaign here: veganuary.com
We celebrate 100 episodes of the The Animal Turn by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines.
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#education #podcasting #TheAnimalTurn
Looking for a graduate student who has an interest in the intersections of animals, race and/or media to join us in the upcoming Grad Review. If you are interested send us an email (info@theanimalturnpodcast.com)
17.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my favourite things about this episode is that Doris named three early career colleagues as the scholars who inspire her: Pablo Castello, Claudia Hirtenfelder (of @theanimalturn.bsky.social), and @nicodmueller.bsky.social.
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On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places.
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Thanks for the share Hannah! The iROAR network has a trove of podcasts focused on animals.
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Carrie Freeman & Christopher Eubanks explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine the representation of animals in activist messaging & the interconnections of animal rights with other social justice movements.
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#TheAnimalTurn #mediastudies #criticalanimalstudies
In 1903 the plight of Brown Dog, at the hands of medical students at a London, helped spark the antivivisection movement in England.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/5kaf3nvx
#theanimalhighlight #TheAnimalTurn #dogs #browndogaffair #animalethics #animalexperiments #ethics #criticalanimalstudies
The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal discuss race, species, their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test.
www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1
Just been alerted that some folks subscription to The Animal Turn on Apple Podcasts has been removed and they are struggling to re-subscribe. Trying to see if this is a wide-spread issue. Anyone else having this problem?
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Death permeates our relationships with animals, yet we rarely confront the complex ethical questions it raises. In this conversation with the editors of "When Animals Die," we delve into the emerging field of animal death studies.
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#TheAnimalTurn #death #animalstudies
Thom Norman joins Claudia to discuss FarmKind's work and the tenets of effective altruism. They talk about FarmKind’s compassion calculator and its lack of vegan messaging, the organizations FarmKind supports, and the critiques levelled against EA.
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In this Animal Highlight, Virginia Thomas focuses on the domestic dog and the ways in which they might be thought of as citizens.
Fun fact - the dog in the artwork is Linus!
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#animals #politics #dogs #animalhighlight #urbananimals #animalstudies
CFP for "Animals and Business Ethics", deadline for abstracts fast approaching (30 April 2025). Find out more here: www.viennaanimalstudies.com/post/cfp-ani...
28.04.2025 12:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I spoke with Kyle Johannsen about The Moral Circle for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Check it out!
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When the triple disaster hit Japan in 2011, people left the area but animals, such as boars, stayed. In this animal highlight Herre discusses how the animals started to roam more in the urban areas and showed no adverse radioactive side-effects.
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It's been a full year since I made my first post for @nichecanada.bsky.social writing about my book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada. Thank you @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social for being so encouraging and making it happen!
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Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence?
If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence!
Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do...
#polisky #animalsky
In this highlight, Herre de Bondt looks at how nuclear waste from the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima impacted the lives of wild boars in Japan. He discusses how boars responded to the departure of humans and are being impacted by their return.
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Laura and I published a book chapter: "Critical Animal Media Studies: Challenging the Hegemonic Representations of Oppressed Groups through Communication Research".
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#CriticalAnimalStudies #MediaStudies #Intersectionality
