Full Description
This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as the zoo, the laboratory, the farm and the animal shelter, to name a few, the book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being.
Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
Contents
1. Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of Politics, Practices and Human-Animal Relations
2. The Salmon Domus as a Site of Mediation
3. What is a Cow? The Invention of the Freestall and How Cows Lost Their Horns
4. When the Battery Cage Came to Norway: The Historical Path of an Agro-Industrial Artifact
5. Back to Nature! Rehabilitating Danish Research Monkeys
6. Housing Eiders - Making Heritage: The Changing Context of the Human-Eider Relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway
7. Muscox in a Box and Other Tales of Containers as Domesticating Mediators in Animal Relocation
8. How Much is that Doggy in the Window? The Aesthetics of Shelter Animal Display
9. Concrete Kingdoms: Heini Hediger's Territories at the Zurich Zoo
10. Care and Tinkering in the Animal House: Conditioning Monkeys for Poliomyelitis Research and Public Health Work
11. Care in the Cage: Materializing Moral Economies of Animal Care in the Biomedical Sciences, c. 1945-
12. The Spatial Arrangements of Making Research Piglets into Resources for Translational Medicine
13. Closing the Barn Door
