This week's guest is Dr Charlotte Wrigley, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has a mixed academic background, but her PhD (at Queen Mary University in London) was in human geography. Her research expertise concerns the arctic, extinction, and climate change. We talk about mammoths, and especially Charlotte’s beautifully named book Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic, which was released in 2023 by University of Minnesota Press. This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press.

<description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt;This week's guest is Dr Charlotte Wrigley, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She has a mixed academic background, but her PhD (at Queen Mary University in London) was in human geography. Her research expertise concerns the arctic, extinction, and climate change. We talk about mammoths, and especially Charlotte’s beautifully named book &lt;em&gt;Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic&lt;/em&gt;, which was released in 2023 by University of Minnesota Press.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt;This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Episode 235: Mammoth Blood with Charlotte Wrigley

This episode's guest is Professor Chloë Taylor, a scholar of gender studies and critical animal studies at the University of Alberta, as well as one of the editors of the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press, who are sponsors of Knowing Animals. We explore the 2024 Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals, which Chloë edited.

<description>&lt;p&gt;This episode's guest is Professor Chloë Taylor, a scholar of gender studies and critical animal studies at the University of Alberta, as well as one of the editors of the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press, who are sponsors of Knowing Animals. We explore the 2024 &lt;em&gt;Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals&lt;/em&gt;, which Chloë edited.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

This episode's guest is Professor Chloë Taylor, a scholar of gender studies and critical animal studies at the University of Alberta, as well as one of the editors of the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press, who are sponsors of...

Episode 234: Gender and animals with Chloë Taylor

This episode features a returning guest: someone who first appeared on Knowing Animals nearly nine years ago, in February 2016. Dr Richard Twine is a Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University in the UK. He’ll be well-known to lots of regular listeners of this podcast for the work he’s done championing the discipline of critical animal studies. His books include 2010’s Animals as Biotechnology, which I’ve seen described as the first book entirely devoted to critical animal studies, and the 2014 collection The Rise of Critical Animal Studies, co-edited with Nik Taylor. On this episode, however, we talk about his 2024 Sydney University Press book The Climate Crisis and Other Animals, published as part of the Animal Politics book series. We're particularly pleased to feature this book as the Animal Politics series at Sydney University Press is a sponsor of this podcast.

<description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;This episode features a returning guest: someone who first appeared on Knowing Animals nearly nine years ago, in February 2016. Dr Richard Twine is a Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University in the UK. He’ll be well-known to lots of regular listeners of this podcast for the work he’s done championing the discipline of critical animal studies. His books include 2010’s &lt;em&gt;Animals as Biotechnology&lt;/em&gt;, which I’ve seen described as the first book entirely devoted to critical animal studies, and the 2014 collection &lt;em&gt;The Rise of Critical Animal Studies&lt;/em&gt;, co-edited with Nik Taylor. On this episode, however, we talk about his 2024 Sydney University Press book &lt;em&gt;The Climate Crisis and Other Animals&lt;/em&gt;, published as part of the Animal Politics book series. We're particularly pleased to feature this book as the Animal Politics series at Sydney University Press is a sponsor of this podcast.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Episode 233: Animals and the climate crisis with Richard Twine

Dr Liza Bauer is the scientific manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking project at the University of Giessen in Germany, having recently completed a PhD on literary animal studies at the same institution. In this episode, we discuss her book Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their series Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature in 2024. This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Dr Liza Bauer is the scientific manager of the Panel on Planetary Thinking project at the University of Giessen in Germany, having recently completed a PhD on literary animal studies at the same institution. In this episode, we discuss her book &lt;em&gt;Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species&lt;/em&gt;, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their series Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature in 2024.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Episode 232: Postanimal companion species with Liza Bauer

This episode features Professor Jonathan Birch of the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jonathan is a philosopher of science who will be best known to an animal studies audience for his work on the science of sentience. This includes his 2021 report Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans, which led to cephalopods and decapods being recognized as sentient beings in UK law. He was also one of the lead signatories of the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness. In this episode, we talk about his 2024 Oxford University Press book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. This is an open access book, meaning that all listeners can read and download it for free entirely legally. This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press. This is a collection of scholarly books about animal studies. As well as recently changing names, the series also has new editors: Danielle Celermajer, Rick De Vos, Chloë Taylor, and Katie Woolaston. If you’re currently working on a book about animal studies, you should consider reaching out to them to see if the series would be a good fit – and we'll get a chance to ask some of these new editors about the Animal Politics series in upcoming episodes of Knowing Animals.

<description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"&gt;This episode features Professor Jonathan Birch of the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jonathan is a philosopher of science who will be best known to an animal studies audience for his work on the science of sentience. This includes his 2021 report &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-AU" style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" xml:lang="EN-AU"&gt;Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-AU" style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" xml:lang="EN-AU"&gt;, which led to cephalopods and decapods being recognized as sentient beings in UK law. He was also one of the lead signatories of the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness. In this episode, we talk about his 2024 Oxford University Press book &lt;em&gt;The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI&lt;/em&gt;. This is an open access book, meaning that all listeners can read and download it for free entirely legally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-AU" style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;" xml:lang="EN-AU"&gt;This episode is brought to you by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press. This is a collection of scholarly books about animal studies. As well as recently changing names, the series also has new editors: Danielle Celermajer, Rick De Vos, Chloë Taylor, and Katie Woolaston. If you’re currently working on a book about animal studies, you should consider reaching out to them to see if the series would be a good fit – and we'll get a chance to ask some of these new editors about the Animal Politics series in upcoming episodes of Knowing Animals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Episode 231: The edge of sentience with Jonathan Birch

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