Description

Virginia Thomas tells us about a red-tailed hawk named Pale Male who sparked controversy and admiration when he built his nest on a luxury Fifth Avenue apartment building in New York City. Pale Male is a celebrity whose story illuminates questions about animal habitat rights in urban environments.

Recorded: 12 October 2023 

 Featured: 

• Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat by Hal Herzog.
• S6E3: Moral Imagination and Habitat Rights with Steve Cooke on The Animal Turn.
• The Legend of Pale Male, a documentary.
• Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman.
• The Tale of Male by Jeanette Winter.
• Recognizing Pale Male by Virginia Thomas.

 

Virginia Thomas is an environmental social scientist with a PhD in Sociology. She is interested in people’s interactions with their environment and with other animals. Virginia’s work explores the social and ethical questions in human-animal relationships. She is currently a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals’ which examines the drivers and consequences of animal feeding. This leads on from her previous research which examined human-animal relations in the media (as part of zoonotic disease framing) and in rewilding projects (in relation to biopolitics and human-animal coexistence). You can connect with Virginia via Twitter (@ArbitrioHumano).

 

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer, editor and co-host 
• Virginia Thomas, script write, narrator and co-host
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Sound clips taken from: BBC Sound Effects, Legend of Pale Male Trailer
• Learn more about the team here. 

 

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