# Lori Gruen

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Bonus: Critical Animal Theory with Lori Gruen and Alice Crary

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In this bonus episode Claudia talks to Alice Crary and Lori Gruen about their recent book “Animal Crisis: A New Critical Theory.” They touch on what inspired the book and spend most of the conversation focused on what “Critical Animal Theory” means. It is a timely and theoretically dense conversati…

S3E2: Pervasive Captivity with Nicolas Delon

In this episode Claudia talks to Nicholas Delon about ‘pervasive captivity’. Moving beyond a conception of captivity as only including those ‘behind bars’, they explore the many ways in which ‘the urban’ might operate to make animals captive by limiting their mobility and autonomy.    Date recorded…

133. Speaking Across Species: Human–Chimpanzee Conversation with Dr. Mary Lee Jensvold (S15)

Send us a text Episode 1 of Series 15:  Transcript We explore the story of Washoe, the first non-human to learn American Sign Language, and discuss the broader implications of chimpanzee communication on our understanding of language, culture, and ethics. The conversation covers the challenges of r…

Summer Reading List 2023

What books should thoughtful people read this summer? Josh and Ray talk to the authors and editors of new and recent books as they compile their annual Summer Reading List: Michael Schur, creator of TV’s The Good Place and author of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Lor…

Captivity

Whether it’s people incarcerated in prisons, or animals confined in zoos, aquariums, laboratories, farms, and in our own homes, millions of upon millions of sentient creatures live in captivity. To be held captive, some might say, is to be denied basic rights of autonomy. But physical captivity, ot…

Animal Rights

We shouldn’t be mean to animals. Is that because animals have rights, like people do? Or is it just because people care about animals? Is it intrinsically worse to step on dog than on a spider? John and Ken play nice with Lori Gruen from Wesleyan University, author of Ethics and Animals: An Introdu…

Kicking Down Carceral Logics | Willow Hutton the Really Really Free Market | Local Positioning Systems (Homeless in Hotels Revisited)

We kick off with some thoughts on how Carceral Logics impact our daily lives in a miriad of ways that often interfer with our ability to form connections with one another and build communities. In other words 'Kill the cop in your head and kick down prisons you make.'Resources Mentioned:Carceral Lo…

63. Should we stop keeping pets? With Angie Pepper and Richard Healey

Send us Fan Mail Is it ever morally acceptable to keep pets? While most of us take pet-keeping for granted and think of it as a source of affection, companionship, and care, it is possible to see it very differently. Angie Pepper and Richard Healey argue that pet-keeping is not simply a private cho…

From the Archive: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction with Charlotte Blattner

Charlotte Blattner discusses how international law, specifically Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, might provide a useful and productive way in which to build legal protections for animals.  Date recorded: 10 April 2020 Guest: Charlotte E. Blattner is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute …

From the Archive: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction with Charlotte Blattner

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Charlotte Blattner discusses how international law, specifically Extraterritorial Jurisdiction, might provide a useful and productive way in which to build legal protections for animals.  Date recorded: 10 April 2020 Guest: Charlotte E. Blattner is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute …