In a few weeks from now, I’ll be interviewing the Critical Animal Studies scholar Yamini Narayanan on the show to discuss her 2023 book, Mother Cow, Mother India, which offers a critical vegan analysis of the politics of cow protectionism in India. Yamini is an Associate Professor of International and Community Development at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. On air this week, I’d like to share a short clip of Yamini speaking on The Animal Turn podcast with interviewer and scholar Claudia Hirtenfelder in 2021. In this clip, Yamini describes how her involvement in feminist urban planning led her to begin to become aware of the experiences of other-than-human animals in Indian cities. Afterwards, we’ll hear a brief explanation of the philosophy of animal rights by Professor Tom Regan. In this audio clip, which was recorded at a public debate in 1989, Tom describes the philosophy of animal rights. Tom Regan was the author of the groundbreaking 1983 book, The Case for Anim
[Review] Mieke Roscher, André Krebber, and Brett Mizelle, editors. Handbook of Historical Animal Studies. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021. 637 pp. In their introduction to the volume under review, ‘Writing History after the Animal Turn? An Introduction to Historical Animal Studies’ (1–18), which uses Harriet Ritvo’s 2007 article ‘On the Animal Turn’ as a key reference point, the editors describe as follows the main goal of and broader rationale for the book: "the discourses of human-animal studies and historical animal studies, just like all the other disciplines involved in the reevaluation of the lives of animals and our relationship with them, past and present, are not identical. Rather, they inform one another. What we aim at with this handbook, then, is to gather and make accessible the contribution of historical research to the field of human-animal studies as well as the contribution of human-animal studies to the study of history. History as a discipline and s
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