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
These two species have brought together John Lemon of Painted Dog Conservation and Kevin Richardson to collaborate on an Australian speaking tour to help raise awareness of the plight of these two remarkable species. We chat with Kevin about the campaign against lion canned hunting imploring tourists to South …continue
Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop from Beyond Zero Emissions talks about BZE’s Land Use Plan and its recommendations for Australia’s animal agriculture industry. And Judith Friedlander from the University of Technology Sydney sheds some light on why mainstream media goes so quiet on the topic of meat with regard to climate change. Your …continue
Ahead of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania conference, we talk to the opening night speaker, Dr Dinesh Wadiwel.Dr Wadiwel is a Lecturer in Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Sydney. His research interests include sovereignty and the nature of rights, violence, race and critical animal …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
