By: Grace De La Cruz, Bethany Suhr, and Percy Zimering (2025)
Species conservation is becoming more important than ever as biodiversity is threatened by human activity, but it can be difficult to decide which actions to take when this involves prioritizing the lives of some species over others. This podcast examines how and why people choose which species to value and explore the implications that this has for conservation.
Podcast length: 13:53
References:
Braverman, Irus. 2015. “Is the Puerto Rican Parrot Worth Saving? The Biopolitics of Endangerment and Grievability.” In Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Life. Routledge.
Cheung, Katherine. 2024. “Plant Blindness and Seeing and Vegetal Timescales,” Environmental History Now.
Haraway, Donna J. 2008. “Sharing Suffering.” In When Species Meet. University of Minnesota Press.
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