Tuesday, January 28, 2014

ARZone Podcast 78: Rob Garner - Animal Rights as Justice

Episode 78 features professor of political theory, Robert Garner.

Rob Garner is professor of political theory at the University of Leicester in the UK who has, for more than two decades, specialised in animal rights.

In this interview, Prof. Garner speaks with ARZone about his recently published book A Theory of Justice for Animals. He explains why Animal Welfare fails to protect the interests of other animals, why "species egalitarianism" (or abolitionism) will not achieve its goals, and why conceiving of animal rights as a political matter of justice affords us the best chance at creating a better world for animals. Audio podcast, approx. 54 mins.


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Rob Garner obtained his BA from the University of Salford and his MA and PhD from the University of Manchester. A professor at the University of Leicester, the focus of his principal research interest has been on the political representation of nonhuman interests. He is the author of 6 books in this area, including A Theory of Justice for Animals (2013), The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation?(2010, with Professor Gary Francione), Animal Ethics (2005), The Political Theory of Animal Rights (2005), Animals, Politics and Morality (2004) and Environmental Politics: Britian, Europe and The Global Environment (2000).


1 comment:

Darryl Whalen said...

Good Morning
It's Sunday morning here in Seattle, Washington USA
I am trying to download the MP3 of this episode
It seems to play well through the RSS feed, yet does not appear to be downloadable
It does not appear to be playable or downloadable through your site's mainpage
I generally access your episodes through the Vegan Feed, yet was not able to play or download this episode over there; therefore i came to your site
It could very well be something on my end
Any chance you can check it out, or re-post it?
Thank you for your great work and your programs
** My previous two comments were only deleted on account of editing purposes - I send them out before reading over them - this one should make sense **
Darryl
Seattle

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