Published work

Peer-reviewed publications

• 2025. Hale, Sadie E. Snorkelling with orcas (killer whales) in Skjervøy, Northern Norway: Ambivalent encounters in a crowded tourism space. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 8(2):770–790. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251319672

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

• 2018. Hale, Sadie E. and Tomás Ojeda. Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities. The European Journal of Women’s Studies, 25(3):310–324. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506818764762. 

Public scholarship & other academic writing

• 2025. Hale, Sadie E. 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.

• 2022. Hale, Sadie. 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. 

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

• 2020. Hale, Sadie. “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 

• 2024. “Parlez-vous orque?” (“Do you speak orca?”) Mise au Point, RTS Switzerland, 3 March. 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.