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 Future Animal Rights Declarations. This is one of the three books shortlisted for the Australasian Animal Studies Association’s inaugural Siobhan O’Sullivan Book Prize. (The others are Josh Milburn’s Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully and Yamini Narayanan’s Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India.) The winner will be announced this month.
In her answers to her quick questions, Doris mentioned Peter Singer, Pablo Castelló, Claudia Hirtenfelder, and Nico Dario Müller.
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.
This episode’s guest is Dr Jack Waverley, a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing in the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester in the UK. His academic background is in marketing and consumer research, and he’s interested in exploring …continue
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Today’s guest is Zara-Louise Stubbs. Zara is a researcher at the University of York, where she is reading for a PhD in Contemporary Literature. Her thesis is entitled Eating Bodies, Assembling Selves: The Uncanny Gastronomic in Contemporary Women’s Literature. As …continue
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Dr Walter Veit is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Reading in the UK. His research concerns the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, and applied ethics, and his books include Modelling Evolution and What Are Zoos …continue
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