Full Description
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. Presenting studies thematically and including a variety of nonhuman creatures in a range of settings, this book delivers new understandings of the importance of nonhuman animals to understandings of place - and the role of places in shaping our interactions with nonhuman creatures. As pets, as laboratory animals, as exhibits, as parasites, as livestock, as quarry, as victims of disaster or objects of folklore, this book offers insights into human/animal intermingling at locales and settings of great relevance to many areas of research, including geography, sociology, science and technology studies, gender studies, history and anthropology. This book meets the evolving interest in human/animal interaction, anthrozoology, and the environmental humanities in relation to the research on space and place that currently informs the humanities and the social sciences.
Contents
Introducing Animals, Places and Lively Cartographies (Jacob Bull and Tora Holmberg) Part I: Humanimal Place Making: Cartographies of Convivial Life 1. Sheep-Shaped (Philip Armstrong) 2. 'Moving quietly in the shadows': On Feral Feeding in Kolkata (Tora Holmberg) 3. Felines on the Fault Line: Cats and the Christchurch Earthquakes (Donelle Gadenne and Annie Potts) 4. Intimate cartographies: creating place with companion animals (Rebekah Fox) Part II: Mapping (Sym)Biographies of Humanimal Relations 5. Sharing the Condition of Abandonment: The Beastly Topology of Condolence Cards for Bereaved Pet Owners (David Redmalm) 6. Curating the Body Politic: The Spatiality of the Zoo and the Symbolic Construction of German Nationhood (Berlin 1933-1961) (Mieke Roscher) 7. Zoo/mbie Spaces: Museums as Humanimal Places (Anna Samuelsson) 8. Model Territories: Choreographies of Laboratory Flies (Tara Mehrabi and Cecilia Åsberg) Part III: Animal (Sym)Biographies: Unsettling Spaces of Human-Animal Cohabitation 9. Microbiogeographies: the Lively Cartographies of Homo microbis (Jamie Lorimer) 10. A Foray into the Geographies of Ticks and People (Jacob Bull) 11. Following the Animal. Place, Space, and Literature (Ann-Sofie Lönngren) 12. Shoring: Contemporary Fictions of Indigenous Cetacean Killing (Susan McHugh) Index
