The Animal Turn

Thanks for the share Hannah! The iROAR network has a trove of podcasts focused on animals.

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.

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#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.

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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?

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 - Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations We are now accepting chapter proposals for the edited handbook “Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations

CFP for "Animals and Business Ethics", deadline for abstracts fast approaching (30 April 2025). Find out more here: www.viennaanimalstudies.com/post/cfp-ani...

I spoke with Kyle Johannsen about The Moral Circle for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Check it out!

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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New Book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism Between the Nature Fakers controversy and the legal status of animals as “property” in anti-cruelty legislation, my curiosity was consumed by these fascinating juxtapositions in the history of animal ...

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!
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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

Vanessa Amoroso from Four Paws International explains how captive breeding facilities create a "conveyor belt of cubs" that fuel tourism attractions while obscuring the darker reality of what happens to these animals.

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🐕 Listen to @heeralchhabra.bsky.social from @livunihistory.bsky.social discussing how urban health histories help us understand changing multispecies health, and how India's dog population got caught up in colonialism, with @theanimalturn.bsky.social www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s7-multispec...

‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears By learning to live with its ursine neighbours, mountainous Pettorano sul Gizio has drawn tourists and new residents, bucking a trend of rural decline

‘There was a climate which was against the bear. We had to do something in a more practical way’ And so they did! 🐻

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On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @pablopcastello.bsky.social about his work on the 'fabric of zoodemocracy' recently published in @crispp.bsky.social. Available free below or in all the usual podcast places.

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Mathew Adams' research challenges conventional perceptions of animal experimentation & considers the nature of scientific work. How art-based research can help to re-think human-animal relations - including health relations - is reflected in the below quote from Val Plumwood!

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Matthew Adams is an academic in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Brighton. He teaches classes in ecopsychology, the psychology of human-animal relations, posthumanities and creative methods.

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Matthew Adams joins Claudia on the show to talk about the dogs used by Ivan Pavlov. They discuss the importance of psychology in debates about multispecies health & point to the significance of art-based in challenging anthropocentricism.

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Big congratulations!!!!

Host of The Animal Turn Claudia Hirtenfelder will be giving a lecture next week about urban animals and the ways in which they are positioned as urban problems and solutions! if you are in #Vienna check it out!

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#Wien #animals #tiere #cities #urbananimals

How promising to see a book about animals and their emotional lives winning the 'Science Book of the Year' in Austria!

Do All Creatures, Great and Small, and Made From Silicon, Have Rights? (with Jeff Sebo) - Econlib Should monkeys have the same rights as humans? What about elephants, ants, or invertebrates? NYU philosopher Jeff Sebo makes the case for expanding your moral circle to many more beings than you might...

EconTalk was an early favorite when I started listening to podcasts, and has introduced me to a huge number of authors and ideas from across the political spectrum over the years. So it was a special pleasure and privilege to appear as a guest to discuss The Moral Circle. Check it out!

Thank you so much for the share. This sound season remains such a transformative piece. It is remarkable what happens when we attend to different senses. Jonathan is also so sensitive and generous with his consideration of sonic methods.

Domestic violence study that strangled rats should not have been approved, animal advocates argue Study aimed to improve detection of brain injury from intimate partner violence, but critics say its non-fatal strangulation of animals was not justified

‘“The public want to know that the animals are treated with respect and do not suffer cruelty,” she said.’ - a good illustration that Understanding Animal Research is a fundamentally dishonest joke of an organisation, little more than a mouthpiece for cruelty.
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