Imagining Multispecies Worlds
Beyond Species
English - January 23, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture Education Self-Improvement animal liberation animal rights animals anti-capitalism anti-speciesism capitalism protest rights social justice speciesism Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode 29. In this episode, we hear from Dr. Michelle Westerlaken. Michelle explains her concept of multispecies-isms or multispecies worlding – a response to speciesism that looks for traces of how we humans interact with other species in our everyday lives, so as to imagine how relationships might take place in a non-speciesist future. Michelle’s work draws in strands from a range of disciplines, including interaction design, posthumanism and indigenous ways of knowing. Michelle finds the ethic of care a challenging but generative concept worth exploring. She also discusses the concept of the Bestiary in her thesis, which opens up spaces for nonhumans to “tell” stories, as well as to push our questions around speciesism into controversial territory. Gaming can also provide imaginative spaces for vegans to explore their ethics and enact non-speciesist worlding.