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!

Knowing Animals
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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!
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Recent Episodes

July 6, 2026
Episode 251: Tame and wild with Marcy Norton
Host David M. Peña interviews Professor Marcy Norton of the University of Pennsylvania about her book, "The Tame and the Wild," exploring human-animal relationships after 1492.

June 1, 2026
Episode 250: China's forest frogs with Jin Qian
Host (Host Name) interviews Jin Qian, a PhD candidate, exploring China's forest frog farming practices and their broader environmental implications.

May 4, 2026
Episode 249: Veganarchafeminism with Nathan Poirier
<p class="MsoNormal">On this episode, we speak to Nathan Poirier. Nathan is an interdisciplinary critical animal studies scholar with a background in anthrozoology, sociology, and mathematics. He currently teaches at Lansing Community College in Michigan. He's the co-editor of the 2022 collection Emerging New Voices in Critical Animal Studies: Vegan Studies for Total Liberation, the 2023 collection Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation, and of the 2024 collection Veganarchism: Making Veganism and Anarchism Dangerous Again. We talk about the 2025 Lantern Publishing collection Exploring Topics in Non/Human Coexistence: Passion, Praxis, and Presence, which Nathan co-edited with Sarah Tomasello, Erin Jones, and Mark Suchyta. In particular, we dig into one of Nathan's chapters: 'Veganism as an overlooked component of anarchafeminism?'</p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the quick questions, Nathan mentioned;</p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal">Ignoring Nature No More, edited by Marc Bekoff. <a href= "https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo14398472.html"> https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo14398472.html</a></li> <li class="MsoNormal">His paper (with Sarah Tomasello) 'Polar Similar': <a href= "https://animaliajournal.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/polar-similar-intersections-of-anthropology-and-conservation/"> https://animaliajournal.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/polar-similar-intersections-of-anthropology-and-conservation/</a></li> <li class="MsoNormal">John Tallent, author of How to Unite the Left on Animals (see an interview with Kim Stallwood here: <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-unite-on-101030529">https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-unite-on-101030529</a>)</li> <li class="MsoNormal">His 'A6' Against Cultured Meat, co-authored with Richard Giles: <a href= "https://www.activedistributionshop.org/product/against-cultured-meat-a6/"> https://www.activedistributionshop.org/product/against-cultured-meat-a6/</a></li> </ul> <p> </p>
308 total episodes available with 5 transcripts
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