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lively cartographies of human-animal relations
xviii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nonhuman animals are ubiquitous to our "human" societies. Interdisciplinary human/animal research has - for 50 years - drawn attention to how animals are ever-present in what we think of as human spaces and cultures. Our societies are built with animals and through all kinds of multispecies interactions. From public spaces and laboratories to homes, farms and in the "wilderness"; human and nonhuman animals meet to make space and place together, through webs of power relations. However, the very spaces of these interactions are not mute or passive themselves. The spaces where species meet matter, and shape human/animal relations. This book takes as its starting point the relationship between place and human/animal interaction. It brings together the work of leading scholars in human/animal studies, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds. With a distinct focus on place, physical space and biocultural geography, the authors of this volume consider the ways in which space, human and nonhuman animals co-constitute each other, how they make spaces together, produce meaning around them, struggle over access, how these places are storied and how stories of spaces matter.
Introducing animals, places and lively cartographies -- Sheep-shaped -- "Moving quietly in the shadows" : on feral feeding in Kolkata -- Felines on the fault line : cats and the Christchurch earthquakes -- Intimate cartographies : creating place with companion animals -- Sharing the condition of abandonment : the beastly topology of condolence cards for bereaved pet owners -- Curating the body politic : the spatiality of the zoo and the symbolic construction of German nationhood (Berlin 1933-1961) -- Zoo/mbie spaces : museums as humanimal places -- Model territories : choreographies of laboratory flies -- Microbiogeographies : the lively cartographies of Homo microbis -- A foray into the geographies of ticks and people -- Following the animal : place, space, and literature -- Shoring : contemporary fictions of indigenous cetacean killing.
edited by Jacob Bull, Tora Holmberg and Cecilia Åsberg.
Includes bibliographical references and index.