Protecting Animals 48: Helen Marston from Humane Research Australia
Release Date: 06/29/2020
Episode 157: Precision livestock farming with Ian Werkheiser
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On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Ian Werkheiser, an Associate Professor in Philosophy at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the director of the Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University. We talk about Ian’s paper “Precision Livestock Farming and Farmers’ Duties to Livestock”, which was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics as part of a special issue on “Engineering and Animal Ethics”, edited by Clare Palmer and Gary Varner
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Episode 156: What Comes After Entanglement? With Eva Haifa Giraud
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On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Eva Haifa Giraud. Eva is a senior lecturer in Media, Communications and Creative Practice at Keele University in the UK. We talk about her book What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism and an Ethics of Exclusion, which was published by Duke University Press in 2019.
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Episode 155: Brigid Brophy's 'A Felicitous Day for Fish' with Kim Stallwood
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On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Kim Stallwood. Kim is an independent academic and long-time professional animal advocate. We discuss his chapter "A Felicitous Day for Fish", which was published in Edinburgh University Press's 2020 volume Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist, edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber. We also talk about the Kim Stallwood Archive, which is a collection of research materials now housed at the British Library.
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Episode 154: The Animal Agora with Sue Donaldson
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In this episode, we are joined by Sue Donaldson. Sue is a research associate in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.
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Episode 153: Emelia Quinn on Vegan Camp
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On this episode, we are joined by Dr Emelia Quinn. Emelia is a lecturer in the English Language and Culture group in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. You may know her as one of the editors of the Palgrave Macmillan collection Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture. Today, we’re going to be talking about Emelia’s paper “Vegan Camp”, which was published in the October 2020 issue of PMLA, which is the journal of the Modern Language Association.
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Episode 152: Humane Jobs for Animals with Kendra Coulter
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On this podcast we are joined by Kendra Coulter. She is an Associate Professor, and the Department Chair, in the department of Labour Studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. We discuss her chapter “Toward Humane Jobs and Work-Lives for Animals”, which was published in Oxford University Press’s 2020 volume Animal Labour: A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?. This was edited by Kendra, along with Charlotte E. Blattner and Will Kymlicka.
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Episode 151: Surviving with Companion Animals with Hazuki Kajiwara
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This episode we are joined by Hazuki Kajiwara. Hazuki has a PhD in sociology and is a lecturer and researcher at Rikkyo University in Japan. We discuss Hazuki’s new book ‘Surviving with Companion Animals in Japan: life after a tsunami and nuclear disaster’. The book is published by Palgrave and just came out in 2020.
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Episode 150: Street dogs as nature with Krithika Srinivasan
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This week we are joined by Dr. Krithika Srinivasan. Krithika is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh. We discuss Krithika’s article ‘Remaking more‐than‐human society: Thought experiments on street dogs as “nature”’ which appeared in the journal ‘Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers’ in 2019.
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Episode 149: The ethics of supplemental feeding with Clare Palmer
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This week on Knowing Animals we are joined by Clare Palmer. Clare is professor of philosophy at Texas A & M. We discuss Clare’s upcoming book chapter ‘Should we provide the bear necessities? Climate change, polar bears and the ethics of supplemental feeding’, which will appear in the book Animals In Our Midst which is co-edited by Bernice Bovenkirk and Josef Keulartz and published by Springer in later 2020.
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Episode 148: The Animals in that Country with Laura Jean McKay
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On this episode of Knowing Animals we chat to Laura Jean McKay. Laura is a lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University in New Zealand. We discuss Laura’s new novel ‘The Animals in that Country’, which was published by Scribe in 2020.
info_outlineThis episode is from our Protecting Animals series. Today I speak to Helen Marston. Helen started her career at Animals Australia and was CEO of Humane Research Australia for 15 years.
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!
This episode if also brought to you by Animal Publics, a special Animal Studies series at the Sydney University Press:https://sydneyuniversitypress.com.au/collections/series-animal-publics
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