Who doesn’t love animals? Many of us say we do. The devilish detail lies in the ways we love them. Some love animals out of respect, others because they care for them, and some love them by petting them so hard they kill them, like Lennie, in Of Mice and Men. Psychoanalysis teaches us that we all love in these ways, though to varying degrees. Our love is often kneaded with hate, it moves us through the drives of possession and can lead us to idealize and misrepresent those in

In Season 7 of The Animal Turn podcast, focused on Animals and Health , the lives of free-roaming dogs in India was often used as a fulcrum around which to think about multispecies health and questions of justice. Many of the interviewees who appeared on the show challenged established conceptions of how humans and dogs interact and advocated for more inclusive understandings of how street dogs shape the geography, history, and ecology of Indian cities. Through analyzing Brit

What started out as a difficult conversation about the inevitability of a dog’s death gradually turned into a discussion on how dogs and humans can live better. In the last interview episode of season 7, Claudia talks with philosopher and bioethicist Jessica Pierce about their experiences of living with dogs and how to give meaning to multispecies cohabitation

In the latest grad review two early career researchers joined me on the show to discuss some of the main themes to emerge in Season 6...

The need for animals to have rights is recognized in an operative clause from the Universal Declaration Rights of Mother Earth which...