Research Catalog

Title

Animal geographies : place, politics, and identity in the nature-culture borderlands / edited by Jennifer Wolch and Jody Emel.

Publication

London ; New York : Verso, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wolch, Jennifer R.
• Emel, Jody

Description

xxii, 310 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Each year billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity--usually for the benefit of humans. The animal world has never been under greater peril and this broad-ranging collection contributes to a much-needed, fundamental rethinking about our relation with it. Animal Geographies explores the diverse ways in which animals shape the formation of human identity. Essays on zoos and wolves, for example, reveal how animals figure in social constructions of race, gender, and nationality. From questions of identity and subjectivity, it moves to a consideration of the places where people and animals confront the realities of coexistence on an everyday basis, by way of case studies of species such as mountain lions and the golden eagle. It then examines the ways in which animals figure in the ongoing globalization of production and mass consumption--illustrated by essays on the US meatpacking industry and meat production in the Indian state of Rajasthan--and finally, takes up legal and ethical approaches to human-animal relations. Animal Geographies compels a profound rethinking of the nature of human-animal relations and offers a series of proposals for reconstituting this relationship on a progressive basis.-- Publisher.

Subject

• Human-animal relationships > Moral and ethical aspects
• Wildlife utilization > Moral and ethical aspects
• Animals > Social aspects
• Animals > Economic aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Witnessing the animal moment / Jody Emel and Jennifer Wolch -- Animals, science, and spectacle in the city / Kay Anderson -- Animals, geography, and the city: notes on inclusions and exclusions / Chris Philo -- Le pratique sauvage: race, place, and the human-animal divide / Glen Elder, Jennifer Wolch, and Jody Emel -- Are you man enough, big and bad enough? Wolf eradication in the US / Jody Emel -- Zoöpolis / Jennifer Wolch -- The cougar's tale / Andrea Gullo, Unna Lassiter, and Jennifer Wolch -- Golden eagles and the environmental politics of care / Suzanne M. Michel -- The spotted owl and the contested moral landscape of the Pacific Northwest / James D. Proctor -- Shrines and butchers: animals as deities, capital, and meat in contemporary North India / Paul Robbins -- Building a better pig: fat profits in lean meat / Frances M. Ufkes -- The "right of thirst" for animals in Islamic law: a comparative approach / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- Animals, ethics, and geography / William S. Lynn.

ISBN

• 1859848311 (cloth)
• 1859841376 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98029363^

OCLC

• 39464715
• SCSB-10462371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library