S7E8: Pavlov’s Dogs with Matthew Adams
Matthew Adams joins Claudia on the show to talk about the dogs who were used by Ivan Pavlov in his extensive laboratory operations in St Petersburg. They discuss the importance of psychology and psychological experimentation in debates about multispecies health, also pointing to the importance of art-based research that challenges anthropocentricism.
Recorded: 10 September 2024.
Matthew Adams is an academic in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK. He teaches classes in ecopsychology, the psychology of human-animal relations, posthumanities and creative methods. Mathew’s research challenges conventional perceptions of animal experimentation and considers the nature of scientific work. From 2022-2024, Mathew worked as an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow on a project entitled Pavlov and the kingdom of dogs: Storying experimental animal histories through arts-based research. Read more about the project in Qualitative Research in Psychology and Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies; or explore the online exhibition. Matthew’s most recent book is titled Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-Than-Human World, and he is currently working on another, provisionally titled An A-Z of the Anthropocene: Key Ideas for Navigating End Times and New Beginnings. Find out more about Matthew and his work on instagram (@dogsofpavlov), X (@mattadams0)and via his university profile.
Featured:
- Pavlov and the kingdom of dogs by Matthew Adams
- Ecological Crisis, Sustainability and the Psychosocial Subject by Matthew Adams
- Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-than-human world by Matthew Adams
- Nature and Experience in the Culture of Delusion by David W. Kidner
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