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Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. They touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics.

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February 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Herre de Bondt writes a blog entry highlighting some of the ways in which street dogs in India emerged during conversations about cities and health in Season 7.

Read the full entry: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/inclusi...
February 2, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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The quotes shared during S8E7, focused on social media, all speak to the tensions of freedom and captivity.

In your experience, what role does social media play in animals' lives?
January 9, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Just had a great conversation with Claudia Hirtenfelder of @theanimalturn.bsky.social. We talked #zoos, #war, #elephants, hungry #animals, and much more.

Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, & Siobhan Speiran unfurl the complex relations of social media and animals. They probe how social media packages animals as content, why that changes real lives, and where activism, policy, and platform design can push back.

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December 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Check out this guest post by ethicist Carlo Salzani in response to FarmKind's newly launched "Forget Veganuary" campaign.

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Learn more about the original #veganuary campaign here: veganuary.com
Forget Veganuary, Buy an Indulgence: How to Eat Meat, Pay Cash, and Call It Ethics
FarmKind’s new campaign, charmingly titled “Forget Veganuary,” arrives with the air of a bold realist crashing an idealist party. The message is disarmingly soothing: relax, nobody is asking you to st...
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December 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We celebrate 100 episodes of the The Animal Turn by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines.

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#education #podcasting #TheAnimalTurn
December 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Looking for a graduate student who has an interest in the intersections of animals, race and/or media to join us in the upcoming Grad Review. If you are interested send us an email ([email protected])
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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One of my favourite things about this episode is that Doris named three early career colleagues as the scholars who inspire her: Pablo Castello, Claudia Hirtenfelder (of @theanimalturn.bsky.social), and @nicodmueller.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places.

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November 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Carrie Freeman & Christopher Eubanks explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine the representation of animals in activist messaging & the interconnections of animal rights with other social justice movements.

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#TheAnimalTurn #mediastudies #criticalanimalstudies
September 29, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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In 1903 the plight of Brown Dog, at the hands of medical students at a London, helped spark the antivivisection movement in England.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/5kaf3nvx

#theanimalhighlight #TheAnimalTurn #dogs #browndogaffair #animalethics #animalexperiments #ethics #criticalanimalstudies
September 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal discuss race, species, their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test.

www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1
September 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Just been alerted that some folks subscription to The Animal Turn on Apple Podcasts has been removed and they are struggling to re-subscribe. Trying to see if this is a wide-spread issue. Anyone else having this problem?
September 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Death permeates our relationships with animals, yet we rarely confront the complex ethical questions it raises. In this conversation with the editors of "When Animals Die," we delve into the emerging field of animal death studies.

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#TheAnimalTurn #death #animalstudies
September 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Thom Norman joins Claudia to discuss FarmKind's work and the tenets of effective altruism. They talk about FarmKind’s compassion calculator and its lack of vegan messaging, the organizations FarmKind supports, and the critiques levelled against EA.

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September 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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In this Animal Highlight, Virginia Thomas focuses on the domestic dog and the ways in which they might be thought of as citizens.

Fun fact - the dog in the artwork is Linus!

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#animals #politics #dogs #animalhighlight #urbananimals #animalstudies
August 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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CFP for "Animals and Business Ethics", deadline for abstracts fast approaching (30 April 2025). Find out more here: www.viennaanimalstudies.com/post/cfp-ani...
CFP - Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations
We are now accepting chapter proposals for the edited handbook “Animals in Business Ethics: Managing Multispecies Relations in Organizations
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April 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I spoke with Kyle Johannsen about The Moral Circle for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Check it out!
Jeff Sebo, "The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why" (Norton, 2025) - New Books Network
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April 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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When the triple disaster hit Japan in 2011, people left the area but animals, such as boars, stayed. In this animal highlight Herre discusses how the animals started to roam more in the urban areas and showed no adverse radioactive side-effects.

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April 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It's been a full year since I made my first post for @nichecanada.bsky.social writing about my book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada. Thank you @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social for being so encouraging and making it happen!

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New Book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism
Between the Nature Fakers controversy and the legal status of animals as “property” in anti-cruelty legislation, my curiosity was consumed by these fascinating juxtapositions in the history of animal ...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence?
If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence!
Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do...
#polisky #animalsky
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April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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In this highlight, Herre de Bondt looks at how nuclear waste from the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima impacted the lives of wild boars in Japan. He discusses how boars responded to the departure of humans and are being impacted by their return.

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April 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Laura and I published a book chapter: "Critical Animal Media Studies: Challenging the Hegemonic Representations of Oppressed Groups through Communication Research".

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#CriticalAnimalStudies #MediaStudies #Intersectionality
Critical Animal Media Studies: Challenging the hegemonic representations of oppressed groups through communication research | Lund University Publications
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February 4, 2025 at 7:31 AM