Season 7: Animals and Multispecies Health
Season 7 of The Animal Turn focuses on "Animals and Multispecies Health." Claudia talks to geographers, historians, ecologists, and anthropologists about multispecies health. This includes talking about everything healthy publics, to compassionate conservation, species story, behavioral ecology, and Pavlov's dogs.
Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast and the Remaking One Health (ROH) Indies Project for sponsoring this season. Thank you also to Gordon Clarke (Instagram: @_con_sol_) for the bed music, Jeremy John for the logo, Christiaan Mentz for his editing work, as well as Priyanshu Thapliyal and Rashmi Singh Rana for the Animal Highlight. This podcast is produced and hosted by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder.
Season 7 Sponsors
The Animal Turn is currently sponsored by Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E). A.P.P.L.E's goal is "to help bring ‘the animal question’ into the mainstream of academic research and public debate in Canada, focusing in particular on the moral, legal and political dimensions of how human-animal relations are governed."
Season 7 is also sponsored by The Remaking One Health (ROH) Indies Project. The project investigates people-dog interactions, dog ecology, and rabies prevention in India.
The Animal Highlights
with Priyanshu Thapliyal and Rashmi Singh Rana
Priya is a PhD Researcher based in the school of GeoSciences at University of Edinburgh. In his project, he is thinking with and for people and street dogs living in an Indian Himalayan village to explore the everyday ethics and politics of sharing life and space on a more-than-human planet. He has an interest in cultural geography, environmental anthropology, and multispecies studies. You may connect with Priya via Twitter @priathaplial.
Rashmi is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Compassionate Conservation of the Transdisciplinary School, University of Technology Sydney. Her conservation research explores how the dynamic socio-ecological realities shape coexistence dynamics in the multispecies spaces of the Indian trans-Himalaya. Presently, her research interests lie in tracing the contemporary relationships between humans and dogs, and its influence on the future of safe multispecies cohabitation in agro-pastoral landscapes. You can connect with her via Twitter/X @RashmiSinghRana
Additional Resources
Reading suggestions from guests
Blog Entries
Some blog entries related to Season 6
Coming soon...
Some good listening on Podchaser
Coming soon...
Animals and Biosecurity YouTube playlist
YouTube playist featuring animals from the Animal Highlights