Interviewed on Animal Voices

Traci and I are being interviewed on Animal Voices this morning. The blurb about what we’re supposed to talk about:

On Animal Voices, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11 a.m. EDT:

Between peering into binoculars and keeping meticulous checklists, for some outside the activity, bird watching may seem perplexing. Why do people enjoy it, and what does the practice reveal about human-animal relationships? Or, consider aquariums, with their carefully choreographed performances and animal-touching activities. What ideas about animals and conservation are encouraged through such institutions, and what insights might be drawn from academic critique? Consider, too, the promise of genetic modification as a means to end farmed animals’ suffering. Are such efforts a step in the right direction?

Join us tomorrow as we explore these, and other questions, with Traci Warkentin and Gavan Watson, doctoral students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Including themes of ethics, representation, and phenomenology, Warkentin and Watson’s respective research is both challenging and engaged. Watson, a naturalist, works at the intersection of animal studies, environmental education and natural history, while Warkentin’s scholarship draws together environmental ethics, education, and animal geographies from a feminist and interdisciplinary approach.

Link: Animal Voices, April 24th Show