Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals' lived experience and human-animal encounters. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, postcolonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life - human and not - violate, constrain, and impinge upon…mehr
Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals' lived experience and human-animal encounters. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, postcolonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life - human and not - violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes - violence, death, life, autonomy - of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up withoverlapping axes of power and exploitation, including gender, race, class, and species.
Rosemary-Claire Collard is an Assistant Professor in Geography at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research looks at capitalism, environmental politics, science, and culture, especially film, with an eye to how they depend on and engender certain human-animal relations. Kathryn Gillespie is a part-time Lecturer in Geography, the Honors Program, and the Comparative History of Ideas Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Her research focuses on the lived experience of animals in spaces of commodity production (e.g., farming, breeding, sale, and slaughter), with a particular emphasis on those animals humans use for food.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction Rosemary- Claire Collard and Kathryn Gillespie
PART I Politics
2 Animal geographies, anarchist praxis, and critical animal studies Richard J. White
3 Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protest Eva Giraud
4 Pleasure, pain, and place: ag-gag, crush videos, and animal bodies on display Claire Rasmussen
PART II Intersections
5 Wildspace: the cage, the supermax, and the zoo Karen M . Morin
6 Commodification, violence, and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras John Joyce, Joseph Nevins, and Jill S. Schneiderman
7 Species, race, and culture in the space of wildlife management Anastasia Yarbrough
8 Pit bulls, slavery, and whiteness in the mid- to late-nineteenth-century U.S.: geographical trajectories; primary sources Heidi J. Nast
PART III Hierarchies
9 Coyotes in the city: gastro-ethical encounters in a more-than-human world Gwendolyn Blue and Shelley Alexander
10 Livelier livelihoods: animal and human collaboration on the farm Jody Emel, Connie L. Johnston, and Elisabeth (Lisa) Stoddard
11 En-listing life: red is the color of threatened species lists Irus Braverman
