Episode 220: Categorizing (and Killing) Cats with Virginia Thomas
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Show Notes
The guest on this episode is Dr Virginia Thomas, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter in the UK. She has a background in literature, science communication, and sociology, and was previously a veterinary nurse. We talk about her paper 'Categorisation of cats: managing boundary felids in Aotearoa New Zealand and Britain'. The paper was co-written with Dr Alexandra Palmer of the University of Auckland. The paper is due to be published OPEN ACCESS in the journal People and Nature on the same day this episode is released.