Cows in the Caribbean: Cattle Chat with Chaz and Andrew

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler about their book exploring the history and agency of cows in the Caribbean.

This month, we got to speak with Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler about their forthcoming book: The Once and the Future Cow. The book's aim is to show an understudied history of the cow not just in the American West, but on the islands in the Caribbean. But recentering the cow also means paying attention not to the typical unilateral framing of human-nonhuman interaction as humans impacting cows, but instead to how cows themselves are agential actors that profoundly shaped their surroundings. For more of Yingling and Kettler: Yingling Website: https://www.chazyingling.com/ Kettler Email: smellhistory@gmail.com Kettler Academic Profile: https://andrewkettler.academia.edu/ ASLE EcoCast: If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast Lindsay Jolivette: @lin_jolivette Alex Tischer: @ak_tischer If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)! Episode recorded December 11, 2025 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

People in this episode

Hosts: Lindsay Jolivette, Alex Tischer

Guests: Chaz Yingling, Andrew Kettler

Topics covered

• cattle history
• Caribbean agriculture
• human-animal interaction
• agential actors
• environmental education

Keywords

• cows
• Caribbean
• history
• agential actors
• environmental education
• human-nonhuman interaction
• cattle

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ASLE EcoCast, Yingling Website, Kettler Academic Profile

Books & works: The Once and the Future Cow

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