Our guest this week is Davita Coronel, a PhD student at Deakin University with an interest in cultural relationships with animals on colonised lands. Her work explores what it takes to learn to live with flying-foxes in an anthropocentric and settler-colonial society. 

Topics include: 

• How Davita chose her PhD topic of a feminist and Indigneous ethics of care for living with flying foxes.
• What research questions she brought to this project.
• What her data gathering process included and what some of her experiences were. 
• What the central findings of her project were.
• The kinds of theorising around care she engaged with in analysing her findings. 
• And what these approaches to care can offer vegan philosophies and activism in the settler colonial context of Australia. 

Useful links:

• Friends of Bats and Bushcare: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1848562278748974/
• Friends of Bats and Bushcare: https://www.parkconnect.vic.gov.au/Volunteer/group_details_public/?id=d7d85384-dc4b-e711-813b-e0071b676d01
• Getting to Know Microbats in Melbourne - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode/getting-know-microbats-melbourne 
• Animals and Colonialism - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202203061300/animals-and-colonialism
• Animal Voices - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202112261300/animal-voices
• Life Upside Down - FoS episode: https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-202110311300/life-upside-down-bat-chat

Music played: 

• Seen by Mi-Kaisha 
• Stressed Out by Ziggy Ramo
• Don’t you worry by Electric Fields 

Freedom of Species' Spotify playlist can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3TJQujKYjGFoFP6LhBbaTS

Image credit: Davita Coronel