This episode is the official launch of Knowing Animals the podcast. The launch took place at the Animal Publics conference held at the University of Melbourne, in front of a live audience. The episide features best selling author Jeffrey Masson talking about his latest book ‘Beasts: what animals can teach …continue
In this epiode of Knowing Animals the podcast we talk to Dr. Yvette Watt from the University of Tasmania about her photographic series ‘Animal Factories’. To view some of the photos from the series go to the Knowing Animals facebook page; the Dr. Siobhan O’Sullivan facebook page; of the @knowing_animals …continue
In this epside of Knowing Animals Dr. Paul McGreevy from the University of Sydney talks about his paper ‘Whip use by jockeys in a sample of Australian thoroughbred races – an observational study’ which appeared in PLOS ONE in March 2012. He also talks about his policy work trying to create policy …continue
In this episode of Knowing Animals the podcast, Dr. John Hadley from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) talks about his upcoming book ‘Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals’ published through Lexington Books. Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. Knowing Animals …continue
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 …continue
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 is systematic violence against animals? Which thinker influenced Dinesh and …continue
