Knowing Animals

Josh Milburn
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Apr 2, 2018 • 22min

Episode 66: Animal Slaughter and Capitalism with Marcel Sebastian

In this episode of Knowing Animals I speak to Marcel Sebastian. Marcel is sociologist PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg. We discuss his book chapter 'Deadly Efficiency: The Impact of Capitalist Production on the "Meat" Industry, Slaughterhouse Workers, and Nonhuman Animals' which appeared in the book 'Animal Oppression and Capitalism' which was edited by David Nibert and published by Praeger in 2017. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Mar 26, 2018 • 21min

Episode 65: Animals and Climate Change with Jeff Sebo

In this episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by Jeff Sebo. We discuss his book chapter 'Animals and Climate Change' which will appear in the book 'Philosophy and Climate Change' and it will be edited by Mark Budolfson, Tristram McPherson, and David Plunkett and published by Oxford University Press. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Mar 19, 2018 • 24min

Episode 64: Pigs with Brett Mizelle

In this episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by Professor Brett Mizelle. We discuss his book chapter 'Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat' which appeared in the book 'Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics' which was edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S.K. Young and published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2015. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Mar 12, 2018 • 24min

Episode 63: Critical Animal Studies with Carol Gigliotti

In this episode of Knowing Animals I speak to artist, advocate and independent scholar Carol Gigliotti. Today we will focus on Carol's book chapter 'The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies', which was published in 2015 as part of the Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Mar 5, 2018 • 24min

Episode 62: Hearing and Smelling Animals in Literature with Sune Borkfelt

In this episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by Sune Borkfelt who is a PhD Fellow at School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark. Today we will discuss Sune's forthcoming book chapter 'Sensing Slaughter: Exploring the Sounds and Smells of Nonhuman Literary Encounters', which will appear in a book edited by Jessica Ullrich and Alexandra Böhm, and which will be part of Rombach's Cultural Animals Studies. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Feb 26, 2018 • 20min

Episode 61: Evil in Nature with Oscar Horta

In this episode of Knowing Animals we speak to Oscar Horta about his journal article 'The Problem of Evil in Nature: Evolutionary Basis of the prevalence of Disvalue' which appeared in the journal 'Relations' in 2015. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Feb 19, 2018 • 18min

Episode 60: The Absurdity of Dairy with Jody Emel

This episode of Knowing Animals features Professor Jody Emel from the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. We discuss her upcoming journal article 'Evaluation of the Land Grab: Absurdism, Decolonialism, and Postanthropocentrism' which will soon be published in a special issue of the journal 'Resources'. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Feb 12, 2018 • 23min

Episode 59: Burger with Carol J Adams

In this episode of Knowing Animals we are lucky to be joined by Carol J. Adams. We discuss Carol's new book 'Burger' which was published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2018. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. You can find AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/. Join AASA today!
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Feb 5, 2018 • 19min

Episode 58: Animal Rights in Palestine and Israel with Esther Alloun

This episode of Knowing Animals features Esther Alloun from the University of Wollongong. We discuss her article ''That's the beauty of it, it's very simple!' Animal rights and settler colonialism in Palestine–Israel' which appeared in the journal Settler Colonial Studies in December 2017. This episode is brought to you by AASA. AASA is the Australasian Animal Studies Association. Like AASA on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/AASA-Australasian-Animal-Studies-Association-480316142116752/.
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Jan 29, 2018 • 28min

Protecting Animals 24: Martin Dingle Wall

This episode of Knowing Animals is part of the Protecting Animals series. I am lucky to be joined by actor, producer and writer Martin Dingle Wall. Martin has appeared in many Australian series including Home and Away, Underbelly and Upper Middle Bogan. Martin now lives in LA and recently stared in the indie hit movie Happy Hunting. Martin is also a passionate animals and regularly uses his profile to raise animal issues. This episode of Knowing Animals is brought to you by AASA - the Australasian Animal Studies Association. AASA is the peak body for Animal Studies scholars in Australia and around the world. Learn more here: http://animalstudies.org.au.

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