Title & Author:

Critical animal geographies : politics, intersections, and hierarchies in a multispecies world / edited by Kathryn Gillespie and Rosemary-Claire Collard.

Edition:

First published in paperback 2017.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge human-animal studies series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 ; 12. Doing critical animal geographies : future directions / Rosemary-Claire Collard and Kathryn Gillespie.

Summary:

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 with overlapping axes of power and exploitation, including gender, race, class, and species.

ISBN:

9781138634701 (pbk.)
1138634700 (pbk.)

Subject:

Animals and civilization.
Animals Effect of human beings on.
Animaux et civilisation.
Mensch
Tiere

Added entries:

Gillespie, Kathryn (Kathryn A.), editor.
Collard, Rosemary-Claire, editor.
Routledge human-animal studies series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301481
Call No.: BIB 247658
Status: Available