In this episode Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus join Claudia to discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. Together they touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics. 

Date Recorded: 2 May 2025 

 

Featured: 

• The Subaltern Gazes: Commentary on Amit Masurkar's Sherni by Ankita Rathour.
• Pig-ignorant: The Peppa Pig Paradox. Investigating Contradictory Childhood Consumption by Lynda M Korimboccus
• Animal representation on UK children’s television by Lynda M Korimboccus
• Can the Subaltern Speak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• From Symbolic to Agential: The Evolution of Natural Representation in Indian Eco-Sensitive Filmsby Rakesh Kumar Pankaj and Dibyakusum Ray
• The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slaveryby Spiegel, Marjorie
• Human supremacism: why are animal rights activists still the “orphans of the left”?by Will Kymlicka
• When different is ambivalence: Strategic ignorance about meat consumptionby Marleen C. Onwezen and Cor N. van der Weele
• Humane Jobs: A Political Economic Vision for Interspecies Solidarity and Human–Animal Wellbeing by Kendra Coulter 
• Advertising oppression: the reproduction of anthroparchy in UK children's and" family" television by Kate F. Stewart and Matthew Cole
• Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell.
• Animal Farm by George Orwell.
• Mother Cow, Mother India by Yamini Narayanan
• The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams
• The Desi Gaze, a podcast by Anki

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