<description>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;This episode's guest is Dr Rimona Afana. Rimona is a Romanian-Palestinian academic, as well as an activist and multimedia artist. Her research addresses war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against nature, and crimes against nonhuman animals. Her work has taken her to various institutions, including Emory University School of Law and Kennesaw State University in the US, where she was an Assistant Professor of Peace Studies. Among her other research projects, she is working on a book with the working title &lt;em&gt;Ecocide/Speciesism: Rethinking Interdependence in the Anthropocene.&lt;/em&gt; In this episode, however, we discuss her forthcoming paper 'The Invisible Victims of Israel's Genocide/Ecocide on Gaza: Crimes Against Nature and Nonhuman Animals', which is an invited contribution to the &lt;em&gt;De Gruyter Handbook of Conflict Resolution and Peace&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;Listeners interested in reading the paper are invited to email Rimona for a copy. This will also allow them to check the sources for the facts and figures that Rimona mentions during the interview.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;The cover image is by Rimona, and features a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-AU" style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;" xml:lang="EN-AU"&gt;homeless  kitten in Rafah, Gaza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;In response to the quick questions, Rimona mentioned:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"&gt; &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;The work of Richard Falk (&lt;a href= "https://doi.org/10.1177/096701067300400105"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1177/096701067300400105&lt;/a&gt;) and Polly Higgins (&lt;a href= "https://shepheardwalwyn.com/product/eradicating-ecocide-second-edition/"&gt;https://shepheardwalwyn.com/product/eradicating-ecocide-second-edition/&lt;/a&gt;) on ecocide.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;The work of Richard Ryder (&lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Ryder"&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Ryder&lt;/a&gt;), Steve Sapontzis (&lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_F._Sapontzis"&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_F._Sapontzis&lt;/a&gt;), Steven Wise (&lt;a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Wise"&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Wise&lt;/a&gt;), and Piers Beirne (&lt;a href= "https://usm.maine.edu/directories/people/piers-beirne/"&gt;https://usm.maine.edu/directories/people/piers-beirne/&lt;/a&gt;) on animals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;Her own work on ecocide (&lt;a href= "https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-15-3877-3_33-1)"&gt;https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-15-3877-3_33-1)&lt;/a&gt; and theriocide (&lt;a href= "https://vernonpress.com/book/1852)"&gt;https://vernonpress.com/book/1852)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;You can find Rimona/Rimona's work on LinkedIn (&lt;a href= "https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/)"&gt;https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/)"&gt;)&lt;/a&gt;, ORCID (&lt;a title="https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530" href= "https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"&gt;https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530)&lt;/a&gt;, X (&lt;a href= "https://x.com/rimona_afana)"&gt;https://x.com/rimona_afana)&lt;/a&gt;, and BSky (&lt;a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/rimona-afana.bsky.social)"&gt;https://bsky.app/profile/rimona-afana.bsky.social)&lt;/a&gt;. You can follow her Ecocide/Speciesism project on Facebook at &lt;a href= "http://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style= "font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"&gt;Knowing Animals is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press. For more information about the series, see &lt;a href= "https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/collections/series-animal-politics"&gt; https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/collections/series-animal-politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Knowing Animals

Josh Milburn

Episode 241: Animals in Gaza with Rimona Afana

SEP 1, 202540 MIN
Knowing Animals

Episode 241: Animals in Gaza with Rimona Afana

SEP 1, 202540 MIN

Description

This episode's guest is Dr Rimona Afana. Rimona is a Romanian-Palestinian academic, as well as an activist and multimedia artist. Her research addresses war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against nature, and crimes against nonhuman animals. Her work has taken her to various institutions, including Emory University School of Law and Kennesaw State University in the US, where she was an Assistant Professor of Peace Studies. Among her other research projects, she is working on a book with the working title Ecocide/Speciesism: Rethinking Interdependence in the Anthropocene. In this episode, however, we discuss her forthcoming paper 'The Invisible Victims of Israel's Genocide/Ecocide on Gaza: Crimes Against Nature and Nonhuman Animals', which is an invited contribution to the De Gruyter Handbook of Conflict Resolution and Peace.

Listeners interested in reading the paper are invited to email Rimona for a copy. This will also allow them to check the sources for the facts and figures that Rimona mentions during the interview.

The cover image is by Rimona, and features a homeless kitten in Rafah, Gaza.

In response to the quick questions, Rimona mentioned:

You can find Rimona/Rimona's work on LinkedIn (https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/), ORCID (https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530), X (https://x.com/rimona_afana), and BSky (https://bsky.app/profile/rimona-afana.bsky.social). You can follow her Ecocide/Speciesism project on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism.

Knowing Animals is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press. For more information about the series, see https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/collections/series-animal-politics.