This week on Knowing Animals we are joined by Dr. Clare Archer-Lean. Clare is Senior Lecturer in English at University of the Sunshine Coast. We discuss Care’s article ‘With animal: Exceeding the ‘Absent referent’ through maternity’ which appeared in the journal Hecate in 2016. This episode of Knowing Animals is …continue
On Friday 20th September 2019 hundreds of thousands of Australia’s joined the Global Climate Strike. We took along a recorded to get a sense of how people were thinking about animals and agriculture in relation to the climate and climate action. Your browser does not support the HTML5 audio player. A …continue
-Jasmin interviews Brenda Morris of Humane Investing about the differences between financial planning and asset management, how ethically-conscious investors can utilize their ethics when choosing where to invest, and the ways that people can use their money to impact the decisions of corporations. (3:40) -Mariann interviews Claire Smith of Beyond …continue
This week we are joined by Natalie Khazaal. We discuss her article ‘An Angry Cow is not a Good Eating Experience: How US and Spanish media are shifting from crude to camouflaged speciesism in concealing nonhuman perspectives’ which appeared in ‘Journalism Studies’ in 2014. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought …continue
Martin Stringer is a nature photographer & videographer who has become personally involved in crowd-funded tropical rainforest protection & restoration projects, both in Australia’s Daintree and in the Amazon. He explains these inspiring conservation programs and the huge benefits they’re having on wildlife and carbon storage. Halfcut www.halfcut.orgRainforest Trust www.rainforesttrust.orgRainforest Rescue www.rainforestrescue.org.au Your …continue
-Mariann talks about the recent Good Food Institute’s conference in San Francisco; all the plant-based meat substitutes on display and their questionable names; and the incredible story of eleven-year-old vegan chef Omari McQueen. -Mariann interviews Leif Cocks about the foundation of The Orangatan Project, the link between feminine empowerment and …continue
