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Podcast: New Books in American Studies
Episode: Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
Description: In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator for the Landscapes, Senses, and Ecological Research Cluster as well as a core-member of the Centre for Sustainable Futures – both located at the University of Copenhagen. Katy’s core fields of research include multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, feminist STS, and agrarian political economy, and she has written on themes such as farm animal welfare, foodways, bioindustrialisation, technoscience, trans-species sensory worlds, and care.
Her main ethnographic fieldsites include the midwestern dairy worlds of the United States, and vari...