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Author:   Jacob Bull ,  Tora Holmberg (Uppsala University, Sweden) ,  Cecilia Åsberg (Linköping University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781472483249

ISBN 10:   1472483243
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   20 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introducing Animals, Places and Lively Cartographies (Jacob Bull and Tora Holmberg) Part I: Humanimal Place Making: Cartographies of Convivial Life 1. Sheep-Shaped (Philip Armstrong) 2. ‘Moving quietly in the shadows’: On Feral Feeding in Kolkata (Tora Holmberg) 3. Felines on the Fault Line: Cats and the Christchurch Earthquakes (Donelle Gadenne and Annie Potts) 4. Intimate cartographies: creating place with companion animals (Rebekah Fox) Part II: Mapping (Sym)Biographies of Humanimal Relations 5. Sharing the Condition of Abandonment: The Beastly Topology of Condolence Cards for Bereaved Pet Owners (David Redmalm) 6. Curating the Body Politic: The Spatiality of the Zoo and the Symbolic Construction of German Nationhood (Berlin 1933-1961) (Mieke Roscher) 7. Zoo/mbie Spaces: Museums as Humanimal Places (Anna Samuelsson) 8. Model Territories: Choreographies of Laboratory Flies (Tara Mehrabi and Cecilia Åsberg) Part III: Animal (Sym)Biographies: Unsettling Spaces of Human-Animal Cohabitation 9. Microbiogeographies: the Lively Cartographies of Homo microbis (Jamie Lorimer) 10. A Foray into the Geographies of Ticks and People (Jacob Bull) 11. Following the Animal. Place, Space, and Literature (Ann-Sofie Lönngren) 12. Shoring: Contemporary Fictions of Indigenous Cetacean Killing (Susan McHugh) Index

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Jacob Bull is coordinator of the Humanimal research group at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the editor of Animal Movements – Moving Animals: Essays in Direction, Velocity and Agency in Humanimal Encounters and co-editor of Illdisciplined Gender: Engaging Questions of Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters. Tora Holmberg is Professor of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden. With a cultural sociology approach, her studies and publications combined Animal Studies with STS (Science and Technology Studies) and feminist theory. Holmberg's books include Urban Animals. Crowding in ZooCities (Routledge 2015). She is research leader for the Cultural Matters group, Uppsala, and Chair of the Swedish Sociological Association. Cecilia Åsberg is Professor of Gender, nature, culture at Linköping University, Sweden, and founding director of the Posthumanities Hub and the Seed Box: an Environmental Humanities Collaboratory. She is the author and co-editor of several publications, including A Feminist Companion to the Posthumanities (Springer 2017, with Rosi Braidotti).

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