Animal places : lively cartographies of human-animal relations /

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 multispecie...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bull, Jacob (Editor), Holmberg, Tora (Editor), Åsberg, Cecilia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Series:Multispecies encounters.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.