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Knowing Animals is a regular 20 minutes podcast about all things related to animals and ethics; animals and the law; animals and politics; and animal advocacy. It features interviews with academic and animal advocates. It is available free so enjoy!

Podcast · By Josh Milburn · English · GB · Official site

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Sep 7, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    Episode 253: Animal rights films with Nicolai Skiveren (opens the original)

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    Today's guest is Dr Nicolai Skiveren. Nicolai is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he is working on a project called The Afterlives of Stories: Exploring the Long-term Impact of Environmental Narrative. His research addresses media studies, environmental communication, and audience reception. And that's exactly what we discuss in the episode; in particular, we explore Nicolai's recent paper 'Persuasion or Polarization? Investigating the Rec

  2. Episode · Aug 3, 2026

    Episode 252: Industrial food systems with Jan Dutkiewicz (opens the original)

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    Dr Jan Dutkiewicz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute in New York. Much of his research focuses on the political economy of food; in addition to publishing research on this topic in academic journals, he's the author of many popular pieces in publications like The New York Times , Vox , and The New Republic , where he is a contributing editor. In this episode, we talk about his book Feed The People! Why In

  3. Episode · Jul 6, 2026

    Episode 251: Tame and wild with Marcy Norton (opens the original)

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    This episode's guest is Professor Marcy Norton of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of History. She's a historian of the early modern Atlantic interested in questions about how Europeans shaped the Americas and how Native American peoples shaped Europe. She's the author of the beautifully named 2008 book Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures, a History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World , but we're going to talk primarily about her 2024 Harvard University Press book The Tame and

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