This episode examines the emerging field of Critical Animal Media Studies. We chat about the politics of teaching Critical Animal Studies, methodological developments, and effective communication with social movements, students, and academia. For Tobias, vegan sociology is “an opportunity.”

Tobias Linné is PhD in Sociology and Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Communication and Media, Lund University, Sweden. He has done research in the intersections of critical animal studies with media studies, for example in a project that analyses historical and contemporary examples of dairy milk being used as a symbol of white supremacy.

He has also designed and taught an undergraduate course named Critical Animal Studies: Animals in Society, Culture and the Media at Lund University, a course that provides an introduction to the field of Critical Animal Studies and discusses human-animal questions especially in relation to the media. In 2016 as an extension of the course, he also founded Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (kom.lu.se/lucasn) a platform for developing Critical Animal Studies research, education and networking for academics and activists engaged in animal rights.

His current research analyses the global dairy industry through the concept of “milk colonialism,” looking specifically at how dairy products are marketed in countries with little historical traditions of dairy consumption.

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