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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa UddinPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.703kg ISBN: 9780816679119ISBN 10: 0816679118 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 April 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: On Feeling Bad at the Zoo 1. Shame and the Naked Cage 2. Zoo Slum Clearance in Washington, D.C. 3. Mohini’s Bodies 4. White Open Spaces in San Diego County 5. Looking Endangered Afterword: Good Feelings in Seattle Notes IndexReviews[An] interesting, and perhaps surprising, perspective on urban and racial issues. --<i>Planning Magazine</i></p> Zoo history is more than simply that-- it appears to also be a history of the human condition. --<i>CHOICE</i></p> An important and thought-provoking contribution to thinking about the place of zoos in modern society. --<i>Environmental History</i></p> <i>Zoo Renewal </i>makes an original, important contribution to the scholarship of zoo histories and human-animal studies as well as of the social and cultural history of urbanism, environmentalism and identity politics in twentieth-century American. It is highly recommended. --<i>Humanimalia</i></p> <i>Zoo Renewal</i> offers a provocative, original reading of midcentury attempts to reform American zoos, reminding us that how we view animals inevitably reflects and reinforces how we view humans. --<i>Journal of American History</i></p> [An] interesting, and perhaps surprising, perspective on urban and racial issues. -Planning Magazine Zoo history is more than simply that-- it appears to also be a history of the human condition. -CHOICE An important and thought-provoking contribution to thinking about the place of zoos in modern society. -Environmental History Zoo Renewal makes an original, important contribution to the scholarship of zoo histories and human-animal studies as well as of the social and cultural history of urbanism, environmentalism and identity politics in twentieth-century American. It is highly recommended. -Humanimalia Zoo Renewal offers a provocative, original reading of midcentury attempts to reform American zoos, reminding us that how we view animals inevitably reflects and reinforces how we view humans. -Journal of American History Zoo Renewal is an important contribution to the growing critical historiography of zoos and, more broadly, post-World War II leisure spaces in the United States and around the globe. Uddin's book adds a new dimension to what has become the standard historical understanding of zoos' relationship to race and empire. -Buildings & Landscapes Lisa Uddin's highly original and compelling argument considers modern zoos as phenomena of urban, suburban, and exurban hopes and fears. The book makes clear that ever-more-ambitious plans to build a finally great zoo are deeply tied to our desires not for a better life for captive animals but for a better life for ourselves. -Nigel Rothfels, author of Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo Lisa Uddin s highly original and compelling argument considers modern zoos as phenomena of urban, suburban, and exurban hopes and fears. The book makes clear that ever-more-ambitious plans to build a finally great zoo are deeply tied to our desires not for a better life for captive animals but for a better life for ourselves. Nigel Rothfels, author of Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo Author InformationLisa Uddin is assistant professor of art history and visual culture studies at Whitman College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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