Published work

Peer-reviewed publications

• Hale, Sadie E. (2025). Snorkelling with orcas (killer whales) in Skjervøy, Northern Norway: Ambivalent encounters in a crowded tourism space. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251319672

• Hale, Sadie E. (2024) “On Sharks Unseen: Oceanic Non-Encounters and Multispecies Ethnography.” Swamphen, 10, 2024, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Swamphen/article/view/18030.  

• Hale, Sadie E. and Tomás Ojeda. (2018) “Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities.” The European Journal of Women’s Studies, 25:3, https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506818764762. 

Public scholarship & other academic writing

• Hale, Sadie E. (2025) Review of Berta, Annalisa, Sea Mammals: The Past and Present Lives of Our Oceans’ Cornerstone Species. H-Oceans, H-Net Reviews. January, 2025. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61252.

• Hale, Sadie. (2022) Blog post: “Out of place, out of time: Freya the walrus in the Anthropocene.” SEATIMES blog, https://www.uib.no/en/seatimes/157549/out-place-out-time-freya-walrus-anthropocene. 

• Hale, Sadie. (2020) “The Greenland shark can outlast nuclear waste. Will it?” Edge Effects magazine, https://edgeeffects.net/greenland-shark-can-outlast-nuclear-waste/.

• Hale, Sadie. (2020) “What does it mean to live a ‘not quite fatal’ existence? Rachel Carson offers us a concept for understanding the poor lives of factory farmed chickens.” Seeing the Woods - blog of the Rachel Carson Center, https://seeingthewoods.org/2020/09/10/what-does-it-mean-to-live-a-not-quite-fatal-existence/.

Media 

• “Parlez-vous orque?” (“Do you speak orca?”) Mise au Point, RTS Switzerland, 03 March 2024. Short interview about the tourists that come to see whale watching and the impact of tourism on the whales (from 07:10) https://www.rts.ch/emissions/mise-au-point/2024/video/mise-au-point-28425216.html.