Season 6: Animals and Politics
Virginia Thomas joins the show as a co-host of Season 6 of the Animal Highlight to discuss animals and politics. This content was originally produced as a segment of Season 6 of The Animal Turn podcast.
Thank you to Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law and Ethics (A.P.P.L.E) for sponsoring the Animal Turn podcast where this content was taken from. Thanks also to Gordon Clarke for the bed music and Rebecca Shen for the logo and episode artwork. This podcast is produced and hosted by Claudia Towne Hirtenfelder.
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Virginia Thomas
Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).
