Tora Holmberg

Urban Animals (eBook, PDF)

Crowding in zoocities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subjected to complaints; they transgress geographical, legal as and cultural ordering systems, while roaming the city in what is often perceived as uncontrolled ways. But they are also objects of care, conservation practices and bio-political interventions. What then, are the "more-than-human" experiences of living in a city? What does it mean to consider spatial formations and urban politics from the perspective of human/animal relations?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317564836
• Artikelnr.: 42554674

Autorenporträt

Tora Holmberg is an Associate Professor in sociology and Senior Lecturer as at the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Urban Animals Part I: Animals in the City Chapter 2: Bodies on
the Beach. Allowability and the Politics of Place Chapter 3: Stranger Cats.
Homelessness and Ferality in the City Part II: HumAnimal Transgressions
Chapter 4: Verminizing. Making Sense of Urban Animal Hoarding Chapter 5:
Feline Femininity. Emplacing Cat Ladies Part III: The Promises of Crowding
in ZooCities Chapter 6: Beyond Crowd Control Chapter 7: Open Endings (with
Katja Aglert)