Animal Spaces, Beastly Places

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Routledge, Aug 2, 2004 - Science - 336 pages
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
 

Contents

1 Animal spaces beastly places
1
2 Flush and the banditti
37
3 Feral cats in the city
59
4 Constructing the animal worlds of innercity Los Angeles
73
5 Taking stock of farm animals and rurality
99
6 Versions of animalhuman
117
7 A wolf in the garden
143
8 Whats a river without fish?
161
9 Fantastic Mr Fox?
185
10 Hunting with the camera
205
11 Biological cultivation
223
12 Virtual animals in electronic zoos
243
13 Unethical geographies of humannonhuman relations
267
14 Afterword
291
Index
303
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Chris Philo, Chris Wilbert

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