This episode of Knowing Animals is from the Protecting Animals series. I speak to Senator Lee Rhiannon from the Australian Greens about her work as the Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson. Lee shared that latest on ag-gag in federal parliament, as well as her work to establish an independent office of animal welfare and live animal exports.
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 special Knowing Animals episode Siobhan O’Sullivan speaks to Fiona Probyn-Rapsey about her paper ‘Dingoes and dog-whistling: a cultural politics of race and species in Australia’ which will appear in the Animal Studies Journal in coming weeks. This episode is also available …continue
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This episode’s guest is Dr Meera Inglis of the Department of International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University in the UK. Meera’s research concerns animal and environmental ethics, including conservation, climate change, and environmental justice. We discuss her 2020 …continue
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Today’s guest is Dr Nicolai Skiveren. Nicolai is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he is working on a project called The Afterlives of Stories: Exploring the Long-term Impact of Environmental Narrative. …continue
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