S3E3: Invisiblized Animals with Paula Arcari
Claudia chats with Paula Arcari about the animals and how animals are rendered invisible in the urban – not only materially but epistemically and ethically too. They grapple with which animals are considered in the celebration of multispecies urban entanglements, and which are not.
Paula Arcari is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow within the Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University, UK. Her three-year project ‘The Visual Consumption of Animals: Challenging Persistent Binaries’ aims to support transformational change in the way humans conceive and interact with nature. Before joining Edge Hill, Paula worked at RMIT University in Melbourne on a range of climate change projects and completed her PhD there in 2018. She is primarily interested in understanding the constitution of societal change and stability in relation to climate and environmental change, the expropriation of nature, and the oppression of nonhuman animals. Find out more about Paula here.
Mentioned:
Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals: A Critical Exploration of the Persistence of Meat by Paula Arcari
Where species don’t meet: Invisibilized animals, urban nature and city limits by Paula Arcari;
In the nature of cities: urban political ecology and the politics of urban metabolism by Heynen, Nik, Maria Kaika, and Erik Swyngedouw;
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: with A Theory of Meaning by Jakob von Uexküll;
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams; T
The Many Selves of Katherine North by Emma Geen;
The War Against Animals by Dinesh Wadiwel
"Other subjectivities aren’t a consumer item, their habitats aren't playgrounds" - Emma Geen, The Many Selves of Katherine North (2016)
Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring this podcast; the Sonic Arts Studio and the Sonic Arts of Place Laboratory (SAPLab) for sponsoring this season; Gordon Clarke (Instagram: @_con_sol_) for the bed music, Jeremy John (Website) for the logo, and Hannah Hunter for the Animal Highlight