This episode's guest is Dr Rimona Afana. Rimona is a Romanian-Palestinian academic, as well as an activist and multimedia artist. Her research addresses war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against nature, and crimes against nonhuman animals. Her work has taken her to various institutions, including Emory University School of Law and Kennesaw State University in the US, where she was an Assistant Professor of Peace Studies. Among her other research projects, she is working on a book with the working title Ecocide/Speciesism: Rethinking Interdependence in the Anthropocene. In this episode, however, we discuss her forthcoming paper ‘The Invisible Victims of Israel’s Genocide/Ecocide on Gaza: Crimes Against Nature and Nonhuman Animals’, which is an invited contribution to the De Gruyter Handbook of Conflict Resolution and Peace. Listeners interested in reading the paper are invited to email Rimona for a copy. This will also allow them to check the sources for the facts and figures that Rimona mentions during the interview. The cover image is by Rimona, and features a homeless  kitten in Rafah, Gaza. In response to the quick questions, Rimona mentioned: <ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">The work of Richard Falk (<a href= "https://doi.org/10.1177/096701067300400105">https://doi.org/10.1177/096701067300400105</a>) and Polly Higgins (<a href= "https://shepheardwalwyn.com/product/eradicating-ecocide-second-edition/">https://shepheardwalwyn.com/product/eradicating-ecocide-second-edition/</a>) on ecocide.</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">The work of Richard Ryder (<a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Ryder">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Ryder</a>), Steve Sapontzis (<a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_F._Sapontzis">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_F._Sapontzis</a>), Steven Wise (<a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Wise">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Wise</a>), and Piers Beirne (<a href= "https://usm.maine.edu/directories/people/piers-beirne/">https://usm.maine.edu/directories/people/piers-beirne/</a>) on animals.</li> <li class="MsoNormal" style= "mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;">Her own work on ecocide (<a href= "https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-15-3877-3_33-1)">https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-981-15-3877-3_33-1)</a> and theriocide (<a href= "https://vernonpress.com/book/1852)">https://vernonpress.com/book/1852)</a>.</li> </ul> You can find Rimona/Rimona's work on LinkedIn (<a href= "https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/)">https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/</a><a href="https://linkedin.com/in/rimonaafana/)">)</a>, ORCID (<a title="https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530" href= "https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0871-3530)</a>, X (<a href= "https://x.com/rimona_afana)">https://x.com/rimona_afana)</a>, and BSky (<a href= "https://bsky.app/profile/rimona-afana.bsky.social)">https://bsky.app/profile/rimona-afana.bsky.social)</a>. You can follow her Ecocide/Speciesism project on Facebook at <a href= "http://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism">http://www.facebook.com/ecocide.speciesism</a>. Knowing Animals is proudly sponsored by the Animal Politics book series, from Sydney University Press. For more information about the series, see <a href= "https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/collections/series-animal-politics"> https://sydneyuniversitypress.com/collections/series-animal-politics</a>.

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