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Kathryn Gillespie

Kathryn Gillespie PhD is a writer, multispecies ethnographer, & feminist geographer. She is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Geography & the Applied Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program. Her research & teaching interests focus on: ethnography & qualitative methods; feminist & multi-species theory & methods; food & agriculture; political economy; critical animal studies; human-environment relations. She is the author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389. She has also published in numerous scholarly journals & has co-edited three books: Vulnerable Witness: The Politics of Grief in the Field; Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, Intersections and Hierarchies in a Multispecies World; and Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life & Grievable Death. Kathryn has volunteered with Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, Food Empowerment Project and Pigs Peace Sanctuary.

Kathryn has a broadly naturalistic worldview and a sentiocentric compassion.

Find Kathryn’s Sentientist Conversation with me here on the Sentientism YouTube and on the Sentientism podcast.

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A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision – Matthew Halteman ‪on Sentientism ep:221

Matthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University‬ & a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. A Sentientism conversation.
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A Joyful Journey Towards an Edenic Vision – Matthew Halteman ‪on Sentientism ep:221

Matthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University‬ & a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. A Sentientism conversation.
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The Wood Wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? – Forest Ecologist Justine Karst on Sentientism ep:220

Justine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. A Sentientism conversation in part about the wood wide web and whether plants feel pain.
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Free “Teaching the Sentientism Worldview” webinar – Jan 23

Happy New Year and a Happy New Term! Our FREE “Teaching the Sentientism Worldview” webinar for the Spring term is on Jan 23rd from 16:00-17:30 UK time. Sign up at Eventbrite […]
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