Most people never think animals are considered merely property, like your phone or your car. In this episode, Professor Maneesha Deckha will be speaking to us about her book, Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Antrhopocentric Legal Orders, where she talks about what it would look like to replace the property …continue
Macken is a writer and science educator. He hosts a weekly podcast about animals, Species, recommended by both Apple and BBC’s Wildlife magazine. He is currently studying anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has written a children’s book about animal symbiosis, Animal SideKicks. *Content Warning – description of violence* …continue
We’re back with another solo episode. But today, I’m sharing 3 different stories of dangerous situations I put myself in because of an animal. Although these stories are based on my own experiences, they are general safety tips to follow.I share some terrifying experiences such as being in a small …continue
Environmental historian Troy Vettese and environmental engineer Drew Pendergrass worked together on the new book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future From Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics. I spoke with both of them about the problems with Marx’s nature philosophy, why we need widespread veganism and energy quotas, …continue
In this episode, we talk about frequently asked questions about, reactions to and arguments against veganism and our life of being vegan. In this episode we focus on the logistics: “I could never be vegan.”, “is honey vegan?” and many more questions. Because all the questions and topics couldn’t fit …continue
On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Dominic O’Key. Dominic is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. We discuss his new book Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals, which was published by Bloomsbury …continue
We are animal advocates walking on Country, on lands that are still unceded and that continue to be colonised. How are animals placed in the settler colonial history of so-called ‘australia’? What is the work that we as settlers need to do within our communities to align with the First …continue
