The Animal Turn

• S8E6: Podcasting and Education with María Carreras and Kate Acton

  We celebrate 100 episodes by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines. Guests Maria Carreras and Kate Acton share concrete changes, strategic insights, and challenges that reshape how we listen to animals and to each other.Date Recorded: 11 April 2025Featured: When Animals Speak by Eva MeijerThe Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams.Inside of a Dog by Alexandra HorowitzEvaluating the Addition of Positive Reinforcement for Learning a Frightening Task: A Pilot Study With Horses by Camie R Heleski et alThe Ventriloquist’s Burden: Animal Advocacy and the Problem of Speaking for Others by Lauren Corman Preliminary evidence supporting the use of equine science podcasts to bridge the gap between scientists and horse enthusiasts to improve horse welfare by Kate Acton and others. iROAR NetworkCulture and Animals Foundation Conversations in Equine Science podcastECA Podcast Nature DisturbedMother Nature is one weird ladyListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyA.P.P.L.EAnimals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.iROAR NetworkiROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals. Pollination Project The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need. Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & CommunDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of the iROAR Network. Learn more on our website. Leave a Review on Podchaser Check out The Animal Turn Merch. Support us on Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, and Buzzsprout.

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• S8E5: Gaming with Keung Yoon Bae, Osvaldo Cleger, and Michael Rübsamen

  Gaming is one of the most consumed forms of media globally making it an important space from to explore human-animal relations. In this episode, media scholars Michael Rübsamen, Osvaldo Cleger, and Keung Yoon Bae discuss the interconnections of gaming, representation, and identity and what the significance of this might be for considerations of animals.  Date Recorded: 3 February 2025 Featured: The Witcher Thoughts towards an Ontology of Play by Eugene Fink Homo Ludens: A Study of Play Element in Culture by Johan HuizingaWhy Animals can’t get enough of touch screen technology by Jason GoldmanRed Dead Redemption 2WestworldGrand Theft AutoAssassin’s CreedDisco ElysiumDeath Stranding BorderlandsThe Lend of ZeldaUnravelDungeons and Dragons Remember to Leave a Review on  Nature DisturbedMother Nature is one weird ladyListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyA.P.P.L.EAnimals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.iROAR NetworkiROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals. Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & CommunPollination Project The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of the iROAR Network. Learn more on our website. Leave a Review on Podchaser Check out The Animal Turn Merch. Support us on Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, and Buzzsprout.

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• S8E4: Popular Media and Pests with Lu Liu, Debra Merskin, and Emily Major

  In this episode we animals, power, and popular media. Emily Major, Debra Merskin, and Lu Liu help to think through how animals are manufactured as “pests” and “icons” in media and how those labels shape empathy, policy, and everyday cruelty towards animals. Date Recorded: 15 January 2025 Featured: Animals and MediaMass Media and Society edited by Debra Merskin Seeing Species by Debra Merskin Media, Minorities and Meaning by Debra Merskin Communicating Nature by Julia B. Corbett. Projecting on Predators by Debra MerskinBrushtail possums and species-inclusive social work in Aotearoa New Zealand by Emily Major Slayers, rippers, and blitzes: dark humor and the justification of cruelty to possums in online media in New Zealand by Emily Major Playful Killing: Animals and Socialist Childhood in 1950s People's Republic of China by Lu LiuAnimals in Media on The Animal Turn Panda Politics by RoseNature DisturbedMother Nature is one weird ladyListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyA.P.P.L.EAnimals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & CommunPollination Project The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need. iROAR NetworkiROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of the iROAR Network. Learn more on our website. Leave a Review on Podchaser Check out The Animal Turn Merch. Support us on Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, and Buzzsprout.

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• S8E3: Rhetoric and Supremacy with S. Marek Muller, David Rooney, and Lauren Corman

  In this episode we discuss how rhetorical constructions of animality, and humanity are mobilized to serve specific power structures, including white supremacy and colonialism. Lauren Corman, David Rooney, and S. Marek Muller come on the show to talk about some of the complex networks of media influence and consumption that shape such thought.  Date Recorded: 19 February 2025Mentioned: “Pageantry of aggression”: QAnon, animality, and the violent pursuit of whiteness by Lauren CormanLong live the Liver King: right-wing carnivorism and the digital dissemination of primal rhetoric by Marek Muller, David Rooney, and Cecilia CerjaInterspecies Subjectivity with Lauren Corman on The Animal TurnDangerous Crossings by Claire Jean KimDecolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve tuck and K. Wayne YangNature's Wild by Andil GosineSexual Politics of Meat by Carol AdamsPetro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire by Cara DaggettThe Animal ThereforeI I am by Jacques DerridaNature DisturbedMother Nature is one weird ladyListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyA.P.P.L.EAnimals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.iROAR NetworkiROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals. Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & CommunPollination Project The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of the iROAR Network. Learn more on our website. Leave a Review on Podchaser Check out The Animal Turn Merch. Support us on Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, and Buzzsprout.

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• S8E2: (Mis)representation and Activism with Christopher Eubanks and Carrie Freeman

  Carrie Freeman and Christopher Eubanks join Claudia on the show to explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine some of the ways in which animals are represented in activist messaging and the interconnections of animal rights with other social justice movements. Date Recorded: 29 February 2025  Featured: The Human Animal Earthling by Carrie FreemanCritical Animal and Media Studies by Núria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie P. FreemanFraming Farming by Carrie FreemanWhat a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe Animals in Media on The Animal Turn. Animal Activism Starter Guide Advocacy Guide for BIPOC Activists – by APEX Advocacy In Tune to Nature with Carrie FreemanAnimals and Media Style Guidelines by Carrie Freeman and Debra MerskinHuman supremacism: why are animal rights activists still the “orphans of Nature DisturbedMother Nature is one weird ladyListen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyA.P.P.L.EAnimals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.iROAR NetworkiROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals. Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & CommunPollination Project The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showThe Animal Turn is hosted and produced by Claudia Hirtenfelder and is part of the iROAR Network. Learn more on our website. Leave a Review on Podchaser Check out The Animal Turn Merch. Support us on Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee, and Buzzsprout.

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