July 14, 2021

47b. Bonus: Daniel Heath Justice on Animals.

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49 minutes

Raccoons inhabit a world between. They have features that are very human:

their little paws, their behaviour. But their eyes are the eyes of an

animal, and they’re inscrutable. They sit up and look human with these

animal faces. Their behaviour — they don’t run away in the same ways that

other animals do from us. They’re drawn to novelty, rather than repelled by

it. So in all of these different ways, they sit between categories of

comfort for us. That’s what fascinates me, but I think that’s partly what

puts in some danger with a lot of humans.

Daniel Heath Justice is a

Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is Professor of Critical Indigenous

Studies and English at the University of British Columbia. His published work

is largely in the areas of Indigenous literary studies, Indigenous Studies,

and animal cultural history, including the recent Why Indigenous Literatures

Matter and Raccoon, and,

with co-editor Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), the forthcoming

Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler

Siege.

To round off their Animal

cluster, Suzanne and Chris

talk with Daniel about raccoons, badgers, and other animals, both in the real

world and in literature.

Show Notes.

Some of Daniel’s books: Raccoon;

Badger; Why Indigenous Literatures

Matter.

Reaktion Books’ Animal series.

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows.

L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz books.

Our episodes on Charlotte’s Web and

The Fellowship of the Ring.

Megaphonic’s Lord of the Rings podcast, By-The-Bywater, will be talking about eagles

in their next episode.

Bartholomeus Anglicus:

De proprietatibus

rerum.

(The section on the

badger.)

Rachel Poliquin: Beaver.

An article from The Star about Toronto’s raccoons and green

bins.

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July 14, 2021

47b. Bonus: Daniel Heath Justice on Animals.

Listen Later

49 minutes

Raccoons inhabit a world between. They have features that are very human:

their little paws, their behaviour. But their eyes are the eyes of an

animal, and they’re inscrutable. They sit up and look human with these

animal faces. Their behaviour — they don’t run away in the same ways that

other animals do from us. They’re drawn to novelty, rather than repelled by

it. So in all of these different ways, they sit between categories of

comfort for us. That’s what fascinates me, but I think that’s partly what

puts in some danger with a lot of humans.

Daniel Heath Justice is a

Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is Professor of Critical Indigenous

Studies and English at the University of British Columbia. His published work

is largely in the areas of Indigenous literary studies, Indigenous Studies,

and animal cultural history, including the recent Why Indigenous Literatures

Matter and Raccoon, and,

with co-editor Jean M. O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), the forthcoming

Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler

Siege.

To round off their Animal

cluster, Suzanne and Chris

talk with Daniel about raccoons, badgers, and other animals, both in the real

world and in literature.

Show Notes.

Some of Daniel’s books: Raccoon;

Badger; Why Indigenous Literatures

Matter.

Reaktion Books’ Animal series.

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows.

L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz books.

Our episodes on Charlotte’s Web and

The Fellowship of the Ring.

Megaphonic’s Lord of the Rings podcast, By-The-Bywater, will be talking about eagles

in their next episode.

Bartholomeus Anglicus:

De proprietatibus

rerum.

(The section on the

badger.)

Rachel Poliquin: Beaver.

An article from The Star about Toronto’s raccoons and green

bins.

Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.

...more