{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 253: Animal rights films with Nicolai Skiveren","description":"Today's guest is Dr Nicolai Skiveren. Nicolai is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he is working on a project called The Afterlives of Stories: Exploring the Long-term Impact of Environmental Narrative. His research addresses media studies, environmental communication, and audience reception. And that\u2019s exactly what we discuss in the episode; in particular, we explore Nicolai\u2019s recent paper \u2018Persuasion or Polarization? Investigating the Reception of Vegan Advocacy Film\u2019, which was published in 2026 in the Oxford University Press \u2018Intersections\u2019 volume Environmental Change and Human Experience, edited by Georgina Endfield and Poul Holm.&amp;nbsp; The people\/works that Nicolai mentioned in his answers to the regular questions are:  'Conspiratorial storytelling and environmental crisis', which Nicolai co-wrote iwth Magnus Andersen and published in the journal Green Letters in 2024.  https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14688417.2024.241625 Derek Bous\u00e9's 2000 book Wildlife Film, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt3fhgg4 Randy Malamud's 2010 paper 'Animals on film: The ethics of the human gaze', in the journal Spring. There is a PDF accessible here:  https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220106002120\/https:\/\/english.gsu.edu\/files\/2015\/06\/Spring.pdf Philip Armstrong, from the University of Cantebury in New Zealand https:\/\/philiparmstrong.org\/  Knowing Animals is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series from Sydney University Press. Please note that this episode uses a modified version of the poster of Milked for its 'cover' because Milked is the subject of Nicolai's research project; there's no link between Milked and Knowing Animals. ","author_name":"Knowing Animals","author_url":"http:\/\/knowinganimals.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42807650\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/206027180"}