In this episode of Knowing Animals Dr. Clare McCausland discussed her article ‘The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare are Rights’ which appeared in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, August 2014, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp 649-662. She argues that we have misunderstood the distinction between animal welfare and animal rights and puts forward the notion of ‘welfare rights’.
Knowing Animals is a fortnightly podcast hosted by Dr Josh Milburn who discusses all things related to animals and ethics; animals and the law; animals and politics; and animal advocacy. The show features interviews with Animal Studies scholars and animal advocates.
In this episode Dr. Dinesh Wadiwel talks about his article: Wadiwel, D. (2014), ‘The will for self-preservation: Locke and Derrida on dominion, preservation and animals’, SubStance, 134:43, pp. 148 – 161. What do Locke and Derrida have in common? What …continue
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Dr Dustin Crummet is an Affiliate Instructor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma and the Executive Director of the Insect Institute, a non-profit organization that critically explores insects in the food system. …continue
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Today’s guest is Dr Doris Schneeberger of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Doris’s academic background is in animal ethics and animal organizational studies. We’re discuss her 2024 Palgrave Macmillan book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards …continue
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