Knowing Animals

On this episode, we speak to Dr Matthew Leep. Matthew is a scholar of international relations, a poet, and a senior instructor in Politics at Western Governors University in the United States. Much of his recent work has been about new ways of writing in international relations, looking at how – for example – poetry, text fragments, sounds, and images can help us explore interspecies relations. Today, we talk about his book Cosmopolitan Belongingness and War: Animals, Loss, and Spectral-Poetic Moments. This was published by SUNY University Press in 2021. This episode is brought to you by AASA, the Australasian Animal Studies Association, which you should join today! It is also brought to you by the Animal Publics book series at Sydney University Press, which offers a range of fascinating books in animal studies.