The Animal Turn

S9E9: Meat, Flesh and Edibility with Erica Fudge

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Erica Fudge joins Claudia to think about how a focus on meat, flesh, and edibility can provide insights into human and animal histories

S9E8: World War II and Zoos with John M. Kinder

Send us Fan Mail John M. Kinder is on the show to discuss World War II and zoos. Together with Claudia the episode touches on how zoos were implicated in the propaganda

S9E7: Fieldwork and Affect with Michael Glover

Send us Fan Mail Historian Michael Glover talks about what it takes to write animal history that treats cows as sentient subjects while still meeting the standards of ri

S9E6: Municipal Records with Frederick L. Brown

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we continue our focus on methodology by talking with Frederick L. Brown about how he used municipal archives to conduct his more-than-hu

S9E5: Historical Methods with Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we switch gears toward considering historical methods. Sean Kheraj and Jennifer Bonnell come onto the show to discuss their edited book

S9E4: Segregation with Jules Skotnes-Brown

Send us Fan Mail Jules Skotnes-Brown joins Claudia on the show to discuss how segregating logics were used to govern humans and animals in South Africa’s history. This i

S9E3: Taxonomies with Harriet Ritvo

Send us Fan Mail Harriet Ritvo discusses animals and taxonomy, unfurling the ways in which animals are categorised scientifically and in everyday vernacular.  She unfurl

S9E2: Modernity with Erica Hill and Susan Nance

Send us Fan Mail Erica Hill and Susan Nance join Claudia on the show to discuss “modernity.” They discuss what this relatively messy shorthand means for history and for

S9E1: Animals' Cultural Histories with Sandra Swart

Send us Fan Mail Claudia speaks with historian Sandra Swart about the importance of recognising animals’ cultural histories. They discuss the maturation of animal histor

From the Archive: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction with Charlotte Blattner

Send us Fan Mail Charlotte Blattner discusses how international law, specifically Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, might provide a useful and productive way in which to bu

From the Archive: Shoalmates with Jonathan Balcombe

Send us Fan Mail [From the Archive - Enjoy!] Claudia talks to Jonathan Balcombe about fishes and their varied and incredible experiences. Using the concept of ‘shoalmat

Bonus: (Anti)Vivisection with Lauren Stein and Richard Miller

Send us Fan Mail Vivisection is an old word for a practice that still shapes modern medicine: using living bodies as tools for knowledge. Claudia talks with Lauren Stein

Bonus: Haunting with Kathryn Gillespie

Send us Fan Mail Claudia talks with Kathryn Gillespie about “haunting” as a way to notice how harm and care shape everyday human–animal relationships. They discuss every

Bonus: Deception with John Sanbonmatsu

Send us Fan Mail 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

Bonus: Animals and the Right to Politics with Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka

Send us Fan Mail Claudia talks to political philosophers Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka about their latest book Animals and the Right to Politics. They discuss the diff

Bonus: Psychoanalysis and the Meat-Commodity with Teddy Duncan Jr.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Claudia talks Teddy Duncan Jr. who departs from the Marxian consideration of the meat-commodity to think about how psychoanalysis, espec

Bonus: Creature Needs with Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent, and Christopher Kondrich

Send us Fan Mail A scientific abstract can tell you a species is declining. A story can make you feel what that loss means and why it should change how you live. In this

S8EB: Monstrous Others with Rachel Dean-Ruzicka

Send us Fan Mail We explore how Stranger Things signals a new monstrous moment, moving from unknowable creatures to human-made villains, and what that shift says about p

S8E10: Grad Review with Gina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling

Send us Fan Mail Gina Song Lopez, researching vegan movements in Taiwan and China through the lens of local culture and social media, and Taylor Jobling, a law lecturer

S8E9: News with Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we bring together a photojournalist from India, a Canadian columnist, and a political scientist/reporter to discuss animals and the news