@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social joins Claudia to discuss ‘deception,’ a concept in the title of his recently published book “The Omnivore’s Deception.” www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod... #Politics, #AnimalPolitics, #PoliticalPhilosophy, #meat, #ethics , #theanimalturn , #criticalanimalstudies

Bonus: Deception with John Sanbonmatsu

John Sanbonmatsu joins Claudia on the show to discuss ‘deception,’ a concept in the title of his recently published book “The Omnivore’s Deception.” We explore how deception operates in understandings...

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Claudia talks to Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka about their @OxUniPress book "Animals and the Right to Politics." They discuss societal & placed based politics, unpacking why both are necessary to enable animals’ political engagement. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...

In discussing the interconnections between the meat-commodity and psychoanalysis, Teddy Duncan Jr. used this quote from Noëlie Vialles' "From Animal to Edible" to think through the implications further. @universitypress.cambridge.org #animalstudies #psycholanalysis #meat

In this blog post, Erich Linder, an animal ethicist and philosopher, discusses some of psychoanalysis concepts that came up in the most recent episode of The Animal Turn: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/psychoa...

Psychoanalysis: Eating Meat and Loving Animals

Who doesn’t love animals? Many of us say we do. The devilish detail lies in the ways we love them. Some love animals out of respect, others because they care for them, and some love them by petting th...

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In this episode Claudia talks to Teddy Duncan Jr. about how psychoanalysis, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis, might be useful in understanding human relations with meat. theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/epis... #meat #meatcommodity #theanimalturn #Lacan #psychoanalysis #philosophy

The co-editors behind Creature Needs share quotes that capture their views on the interconnections between conservation, the anxiety to do something, and art. What are your thoughts? Full episode here: theanimalturn.buzzsprout.com/1246910/epis... #TheAnimalTurn #Art #ScienceAndArt #AnimalStudies

As you can hear from the clip, in the final animal highlight looking at "museum collections and objects" we question some of the ethics and practices of what it means to collect animals theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/epis... #Animalhighlight #animalturn #animalethics

In Rosa Dyer's final animal highlight she considers whether zoos could be considers "living collections". Focusing on Moo-Deng she discusses ethical concerns related to zoos and ideas of preservation. Listen/Read the full highlight here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-...

Living collections and the Moo-Deng phenomenon

We are continuing this series looking at the relationships between animals, objects and museums with our next celebrity animal highlight. All of the highlights have been centred around particular kind...

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The latest blog written by Herre de Bondt considers some of the context and discourses circulating Bram, an offspring of some of the first wolves to re-settle in the Netherlands. Read here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/bf65038... #TheAnimalTurn #Wolves #Bram #Conservation #AnimalEthics

Rosa Dyer questions whether zoos are “living collections” that objectifying animals in ways that are similar to the animal objects one finds in a museum or archive. She considers the internet sensation Moo Deng and asks what her fame has achieved. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-...

Living collections and the Moo-Deng phenomenon

We are continuing this series looking at the relationships between animals, objects and museums with our next celebrity animal highlight. All of the highlights have been centred around particular kind...

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Large bird collections like the one at Tring are considered an invaluable and irreplaceable resource for science but they also raise a host of questions about the role and ethics of collecting animals. Listen to/Read the full animal highlight here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...

Spectacular plumage and feather heists

Welcome back to the Animal Highlights! Today we are continuing our tour of the world of animals and museums. This episode moves us a bit away from animal-objects displayed in the public areas of museu...

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Rosa returns to feathers in this episode, this time to discuss the infamous 2009 “feather heist”, in which Edwin Rist stole an invaluable collection of bright-coloured feathers from tropical birds for the hobby of fly-tying. Read/Listen to more: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...

Today marks World Day for Laboratory Animals. Established in 1979, April 24th is a day to confront a practice that many would prefer to ignore. Carlo Salzani writes a blog asking if it should be thought of as a day of commemoration. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-day-o... #WDAIL2026

In this episode Rosa considers how museum collections and archives could be thought of as living ecosystems. She discusses how webbing clothes moths are understood as ‘pests’ and some of the strategies curators are trying to employ to manage them. More: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/munchin...

The Oxford Dodo is an important specimen because it is one of few surviving dodo specimens in existence & the only one which also includes soft tissue material. But what do we know about the bird behind the specimen? Rosa gives it some thought! www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...

In the latest blog post, Carlo Salzani discusses the recent killing of baboons at a zoo in Switzerland. He considers some of the discourses and language used. Read the full post here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/surplus... #zoos #conservation #baboons #animalethics #animalrights

Rosa focuses on the Oxford Dodo, attempting to trace the life history of a bird whose only trace is a fragile head and foot in the Oxford University of Natural History. Listen/read here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...

While there are many movies that frame animals as monsters there seems to have been a shift in recent times in which it is not animals, but humans, that are the monsters. At least that's what Claudia thinks. Do you agree? #animalstudies #criticalanimalstudies #mediastudies

In the The Animal Highlight, Rosa explores the implications of a feather colouring process for thinking about ethical relationality between species and what it means for birds to be included in kinship networks. Read/Listen to learn more: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots...

Parrots, frogs and colour-changing feathers

Welcome back to this series of Animal Highlights, where we are taking inspiration from animals in museums. This week we are thinking about how objects in museums can also be considered “multi-specied ...

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Rosa traces a Munduruku feather cap from Brazil to the museum case and discusses how tapirage was a process used to turned green parrots feathers a blazing yellow by using frog toxins, dyes and time. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots...

Parrots, frogs and colour-changing feathers

Welcome back to this series of Animal Highlights, where we are taking inspiration from animals in museums. This week we are thinking about how objects in museums can also be considered “multi-specied ...

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In "Monstrous Others with Rachel Dean-Ruzicka", we explore how #StrangerThings signals a new monstrous moment, moving from unknowable creatures to human-made villains, & what that shift says about power, identity, and culture. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod... #TheAnimalTurn

Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. The object brings into focus the differences between indigenous mythologies and western ideas of hummingbirds and what the impacts of global trade were www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...

Hummingbirds: Warrior birds and feathered jewels

Welcome to the second episode of this Animal Highlights series where we are exploring the theme of animals, collecting and museums. I’m really excited about this week’s episode because we are focusing...

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Gina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling shared quotes during the Grad Review focused on "Animals and Media". Both quotes highlight how the boundaries of what constitutes suffering seem to have been drawn arbitrarily. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8

Using a feather fan as her base, Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. To find out more about the fan and the birds listen to/read the full story here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...

Gina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling come on to the show to discuss the main themes and tensions to emerge in Season 8, Animals and Media www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e10

Rosa Dyer looks at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-ext... #huai #animalhighlight #theanimalturn #NewZealand #extinction

We start S6 of The Animal Highlight "Museum Collections/Objects" with Rosa Dyer looking at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. Rosa uses the museum object to ask questions about how different knowledge systems value animals.

Animals are partly absent in news stories because their lives are generally marginalized in human understandings of the world. The stories of animals used for meat are also often absent in mainstream media because it is in the interests of big industry for them to be. Quotes shared by guests in S8E9

In this episode Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz discuss animals and the news. We discuss different types of news as well as some of the challenges that come with creating news content that focuses on animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e9 #TheAnimalTurn

In this blog Claudia reflects on the fate of baboons killed at Nürnberg Zoo in 2025. She questions the relationship between animals and zoos making simple observations that while zoos inform science they are also places that breed and kill animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-los...