Episode 238: Snail stories with Thom Van Dooren

Today's guest is Thom van Dooren. Thom is a Professor of Environmental Humanities and the Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. He summarizes his own interdisciplinary work as being about understanding and caring for the dead and the dying, including humans and animals, and including individuals, populations, and kinds. He will be known to lots of listeners for his contributions to 'extinction studies'. His publications include the 2014 book Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the End of Extinction and the 2019 book The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds , both from Columbia University Press. In this episode, we talk about his 2022 MIT Press book A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions . Knowing Animals is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series at Sydney University Press.

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Episode 238: Snail stories with Thom Van Dooren is an episode from Knowing Animals by Josh Milburn.

This episode is 28:18 long.

This episode was published on Jun 2, 2025.

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