With Mylan Engel Jr - MAKING ETHICAL CONNECTIONS FOR ANIMAL JUSTICE - Episode 29
Release Date: 05/02/2021
With Aiyana Goodfellow - REJECTING PETHOOD AND EMBRACING OUR MULTISPECIES WORLD - Episode 38
Thrive Vegan World
We explore Aiyana's evolution from mainstream vegan activism to their creative projects centring anti-speciesism and collective liberation. Aiyana guides us through some of the concepts and language from her recently published book. In ‘Radical Companionship: Rejecting Pethood & Embracing Our Multispecies World’, Aiyana offers a theory and praxis of how we can develop more respectful relationships with others through an anti-speciesist lens, with particular focus on individuals he terms as 'colonised into pethood'.
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With Dr Corey Lee Wrenn - A RATIONAL AND RADICAL APPROACH TO ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISM - Episode 37
Thrive Vegan World
Corey shares her research on the professionalisation of animal rights organisations and how this is detrimental to a radical abolitionist message.
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With Michelle Schwegmann - ETHICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS ACTIVISM - Episode 36
Thrive Vegan World
Michelle shares how a passion to spread the animal rights message led her and husband Josh to found Herbivore Clothing and more recently to co-create the cook book 'Eat Like You Give A Damn'.
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With Marc Bekoff - NURTURING RESPECTFUL RELATIONS WITH OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 35
Thrive Vegan World
Exploring how scientific findings on other animal cognition and behaviour can inform our advocacy in the animal liberation movement.
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With Carol J Adams - ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DISMANTLING ANIMAL OPPRESSION PART 2 - Episode 34
Thrive Vegan World
We discuss the claims that the movement is becoming too human-centred with its focus on diet, health and human experiences of oppression.
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With Carol J Adams - ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DISMANTLING ANIMAL OPPRESSION PART 1 - Episode 33
Thrive Vegan World
Carol discusses some of the themes of her revolutionary book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, including the inextricable link between misogyny and speciesism. We explore how understanding masculinity and meat, feminised protein and the function of the 'absent referent', is essential to dismantling these interconnected oppressions.
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With pattrice jones - CARE, CONTEXT & INTERCONNECTIONS IN THE PURSUIT OF ANIMAL LIBERATION - Episode 32
Thrive Vegan World
pattrice shares her journey from her early activism in the LGBTQ+ movement to co-founding VINE Sanctuary.
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With Lynda M Korimboccus - THE PEPPA PIG PARADOX - CONFRONTING SOCIALISED SPECIESISM - Episode 31
Thrive Vegan World
Exploring Lynda's recent paper, The Peppa Pig Paradox, and how children are socialised into loving other animals whilst learning to normalise their use and consumption.
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With Kristof Dhont - WHY WE LOVE AND EXPLOIT OTHER ANIMALS - Episode 30
Thrive Vegan World
We hear about Kristof's research into the psychology of human-animal relations and how Social Dominance Orientation and Right Wing Authoritarianism influence oppressive behaviours, including speciesism.
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With Mylan Engel Jr - MAKING ETHICAL CONNECTIONS FOR ANIMAL JUSTICE - Episode 29
Thrive Vegan World
Mylan shares his journey from an upbringing in a family of hunters and pig farmers to ethical vegan.
info_outlineMylan shares his journey from an upbringing in a family of hunters and pig farmers to philosophy professor and ethical vegan.
We explore the importance of morality in achieving social change, and whether an understanding of 'rights based' theory is necessary for effective advocacy.
We hear how Mylan's work in animal, environmental and food ethics has informed his understanding of how we can connect to non-vegans through shared values and positive marketing strategies.
And we explore the role of emotion in our moral considerations, and whether reasoned thinking alone is enough to effect behavioural change.