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Catherine Oliver
Catherine Oliver is a geographer, researcher, and lecturer in the sociology of climate change at Lancaster University. Until September 2022, Catherine was working with ex-commercial laying hens in London at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham in 2020 and her first book, Veganism, Archives, and Animals was published with Routledge in 2021. Catherine writes widely about animals from a geographical perspective in academic and public-facing forums. She can be found on Twitter at @katiecmoliver, and more about her work is available on her website: https://catherinecmoliver.com/.
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In Cow, a documentary filmed over four years on a British dairy farm, director Andrea Arnold explores what it means for Luma, a farmed animal, to be truly seen.
Climate•5 min read
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