Season 3: Animals and Biosecurity
Amanda Bunten-Walberg joins the show as a co-host of Season 3 of the Animal Highlight to discuss animals and biosecurity. She talks about the biosecurity threats domesticated and wild animals face including being hunted and culled, also highlighting how animals' complex social and cultural lives are impacted by biosecurity measures. From maligned rats to misunderstood mosquitos, and anarchist jellyfish this season has it all. This content was originally produced as a segment of Season 5 of The Animal Turn podcast.
Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast; Gordon Clarke (Instagram: @_con_sol_) for the bed music, Rebecca Shen for the logo and episode artwork, and Christiaan Mentz for his editing work. This podcast is produced and hosted by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder.
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Amanda Bunten-Walberg
Amanda (Mandy) Bunten-Walberg (she/ her) is a PhD Candidate at Queen's University's School of Environmental Studies. Her research explores more-than-human ethics in contagious contexts through the case study of bats and COVID-19. In particular, Mandy is interested in how more-than-human ethics, critical race theory, queer theory, and biopolitical theory might guide humans towards developing more ethical relationships with bats and other (human and more-than-human) persons who are dominantly understood as diseased.
