The Animal Turn

Claudia talks to Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka about their @OxUniPress book "Animals and the Right to Politics." They discuss societal & placed based politics, unpacking why both are necessary to enable animals’ political engagement. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...

In this episode Claudia talks to Teddy Duncan Jr. about how psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, might be useful in understanding human relations with meat. theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/epis... #meat #meatcommodity #theanimalturn #Lacan #psychoanalysis #philosophy

As you can hear from the clip, in the final animal highlight looking at "museum collections and objects" we question some of the ethics and practices of what it means to collect animals theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/epis... #Animalhighlight #animalturn #animalethics

Rosa returns to feathers in this episode, this time to discuss the infamous 2009 “feather heist”, in which Edwin Rist stole an invaluable collection of bright-coloured feathers from tropical birds for the hobby of fly-tying. Read/Listen to more: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...

In this episode Rosa considers how museum collections and archives could be thought of as living ecosystems. She discusses how webbing clothes moths are understood as ‘pests’ and some of the strategies curators are trying to employ to manage them. More: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/munchin...

Rosa focuses on the Oxford Dodo, attempting to trace the life history of a bird whose only trace is a fragile head and foot in the Oxford University of Natural History. Listen/read here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...

In "Monstrous Others with Rachel Dean-Ruzicka", we explore how #StrangerThings signals a new monstrous moment, moving from unknowable creatures to human-made villains, & what that shift says about power, identity, and culture. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod... #TheAnimalTurn

Using a feather fan as her base, Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. To find out more about the fan and the birds listen to/read the full story here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...

Gina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling come on to the show to discuss the main themes and tensions to emerge in Season 8, Animals and Media www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e10

We start S6 of The Animal Highlight "Museum Collections/Objects" with Rosa Dyer looking at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. Rosa uses the museum object to ask questions about how different knowledge systems value animals.

In this episode Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz discuss animals and the news. We discuss different types of news as well as some of the challenges that come with creating news content that focuses on animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e9 #TheAnimalTurn

Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. They touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e8

Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, & Siobhan Speiran unfurl the complex relations of social media and animals. They probe how social media packages animals as content, why that changes real lives, and where activism, policy, and platform design can push back. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e7

We celebrate 100 episodes of the The Animal Turn by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e6 #education #podcasting #TheAnimalTurn

Carrie Freeman & Christopher Eubanks explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine the representation of animals in activist messaging & the interconnections of animal rights with other social justice movements. lnkd.in/d6TWpb5a #TheAnimalTurn #mediastudies #criticalanimalstudies

In 1903 the plight of Brown Dog, at the hands of medical students at a London, helped spark the antivivisection movement in England. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5kaf3nvx #theanimalhighlight #TheAnimalTurn #dogs #browndogaffair #animalethics #animalexperiments #ethics #criticalanimalstudies

The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal discuss race, species, their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1

Death permeates our relationships with animals, yet we rarely confront the complex ethical questions it raises. In this conversation with the editors of "When Animals Die," we delve into the emerging field of animal death studies. shorturl.at/FOb7s #TheAnimalTurn #death #animalstudies

Thom Norman joins Claudia to discuss FarmKind's work and the tenets of effective altruism. They talk about FarmKind’s compassion calculator and its lack of vegan messaging, the organizations FarmKind supports, and the critiques levelled against EA. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...

In this Animal Highlight, Virginia Thomas focuses on the domestic dog and the ways in which they might be thought of as citizens. Fun fact - the dog in the artwork is Linus! www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s5-animals-a... #animals #politics #dogs #animalhighlight #urbananimals #animalstudies

In this highlight, Herre de Bondt looks at how nuclear waste from the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima impacted the lives of wild boars in Japan. He discusses how boars responded to the departure of humans and are being impacted by their return. theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/epis...

Vanessa Amoroso from Four Paws International explains how captive breeding facilities create a "conveyor belt of cubs" that fuel tourism attractions while obscuring the darker reality of what happens to these animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...

Matthew Adams joins Claudia on the show to talk about the dogs used by Ivan Pavlov. They discuss the importance of psychology in debates about multispecies health & point to the significance of art-based in challenging anthropocentricism. t.co/14k04iQxEc 🧵(1/4)

In the latest episode, Heeral Chhabra tells us about urban health histories and how the welfare of free-roaming dogs in India was caught up with the colonial history of the country. Find out more: theanimalturnpodcast.com/s7-multispec... #AnimalHistories #urbananimals #TheAnimalTurn

In S7E6, Claudia talks to Daniel Ramp about compassionate conservation. Daniel presents compelling arguments for integrating compassion and consideration of individuals into conservation policies and practices. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s7-multispec...

In S7E4, @abhadra7.bsky.social joins Claudia to explain behavioural ecology and how it is applied to understanding free-roaming dogs in India. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s7-multispec... #ecology#behaviouralecology #animalstudies #criticalanimalstudies #TheAnimalTurn #dogs #India