Bethany Brookshire: Rethinking “pests” and the ways they challenge power
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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What does it mean that the labeling of “pests” often relate to how they challenge power and order? How do the ways that “pests” are often targeted and managed further exacerbate socio-environmental injustices? And how might we learn to relate with animals deemed “out of place” beyond the subjective framing of “pests” altogether?
In this episode, we are honored to discuss all things related to “pests” with Bethany Brookshire, an award-winning freelance science journalist and author of the 2022 book Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains.
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| 1:09.7 | What I found really interesting when I was studying and researching for this book |
| 1:15.0 | was to learn that, you know, obviously different languages have different words for pest. |
| 1:21.9 | But not all languages do, because not all cultures have a word for pest, because not all cultures have a word for pest because not all cultures have a |
| 1:31.0 | concept of an animal that meets that definition. |
| 1:49.0 | You're listening to Green Dreamer and and I'm your host, Kamehashane. |
| 1:55.5 | Today we are joined by Bethany Brookshire, an award-winning freelance science journalist, |
| 2:01.8 | and author of the 2022 book, Pests, How Humans Create Animal Villains. |
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