Animal Housing and Human-Animal Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures

Author:   Kristian Bjørkdahl ,  Tone Druglitrø
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138547155


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   06 February 2018
Format:   Paperback
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This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as the zoo, the laboratory, the farm and the animal shelter, to name a few, the book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being. The contributions in the book show in various ways how physical infrastructures of animal housing are always part of a much broader sociocultural and political infrastructure, where the material reality of housing systems combines with human and animal agents, with politics, and with practices. As such, the book explores what kind of practices and relations develop around the physical structures of animal housing, and by whom, and for whom, they are developed. This innovative collection will be of great interest to student and scholars in animal studies, more than human studies, geography, anthropology, and sociology.

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Author:   Kristian Bjørkdahl ,  Tone Druglitrø
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138547155


ISBN 10:   1138547158
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   06 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of Politics, Practices and Human-Animal Relations 2. The Salmon Domus as a Site of Mediation 3. What is a Cow? The Invention of the Freestall and How Cows Lost Their Horns 4. When the Battery Cage Came to Norway: The Historical Path of an Agro-Industrial Artifact 5. Back to Nature! Rehabilitating Danish Research Monkeys 6. Housing Eiders – Making Heritage: The Changing Context of the Human-Eider Relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway 7. Muscox in a Box and Other Tales of Containers as Domesticating Mediators in Animal Relocation 8. How Much is that Doggy in the Window? The Aesthetics of Shelter Animal Display 9. Concrete Kingdoms: Heini Hediger’s Territories at the Zurich Zoo 10. Care and Tinkering in the Animal House: Conditioning Monkeys for Poliomyelitis Research and Public Health Work 11. Care in the Cage: Materializing Moral Economies of Animal Care in the Biomedical Sciences, c. 1945- 12. The Spatial Arrangements of Making Research Piglets into Resources for Translational Medicine 13. Closing the Barn Door

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Kristian Bjørkdahl is a Researcher at the Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, in Bergen, Norway. Tone Druglitrø is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

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