Sinopsis
Knowing Animals is a fortnightly podcast about all things related to animals and ethics; animals and the law; animals and politics; and animal advocacy. It features interviews with Animal Studies scholars and animal advocates. It is available free so enjoy!
Episodios
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![Episode 4: Whips, racehorses and policy change with Paul McGreevy]()
Episode 4: Whips, racehorses and policy change with Paul McGreevy
22/06/2015 Duración: 31minIn this epside of Knowing Animals Dr. Paul McGreevy from the University of Sydney talks about his paper ‘Whip use by jockeys in a sample of Australian thoroughbred races – an observational study’ which appeared in PLOS ONE in March 2012. He also talks about his policy work trying to create policy change around the use of whips on racehorses in Australia.
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![Episode 3: Property Rights for Nonhuman Animals with John Hadley]()
Episode 3: Property Rights for Nonhuman Animals with John Hadley
10/06/2015 Duración: 27minIn this episode of Knowing Animals the podcast, Dr. John Hadley from the University of Western Sydney (UWS) talks about his upcoming book 'Animal Property Rights: A Theory of Habitat Rights for Wild Animals' published through Lexington Books.
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![Episode 2: animal rights, animal welfare and everything in-between with Clare McCausland]()
Episode 2: animal rights, animal welfare and everything in-between with Clare McCausland
21/05/2015 Duración: 22minIn this episode of Knowing Animals Dr. Clare McCausland discussed her article 'The Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare are Rights' which appeared in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, August 2014, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp 649-662. She argues that we have misunderstood the distinction between animal welfare and animal rights and puts forward the notion of 'welfare rights'.
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![Episode 1: Locke, Derrida and Violence against Animals with Dinesh Wadiwel]()
Episode 1: Locke, Derrida and Violence against Animals with Dinesh Wadiwel
21/05/2015 Duración: 19minIn this episode Dr. Dinesh Wadiwel talks about his article: Wadiwel, D. (2014), 'The will for self-preservation: Locke and Derrida on dominion, preservation and animals', SubStance, 134:43, pp. 148 - 161. What do Locke and Derrida have in common? What is systematic violence against animals? Which thinker influenced Dinesh and what does he think we should do to improve the human/nonhuman relationship?
