Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands

Jennifer Wolch, Jody Emel

Verso, 1998 - Philosophy - 310 pages

A highly topical survey of human's treatment of animals. Each year billions of animals are poisoned, dissected, displaced, killed for consumption, or held in captivity to be discarded as soon as their utility to humans has waned. The animal world has never been under greater peril. A broad-ranging collection of essays, Animal Geographies contributes to a much-needed, fundamental rethinking about our relation to animals. Animal Geographies explores the diverse ways in which animals shape the formation of human identity, looking, for example, at the racialization and gendering of animal images. From questions of identity and subjectivity, it moves to consideration of the places where people and animals confront the realities of coexistence on an everyday basis. It then examines the ways in which animals figure in the ongoing globalization of production and mass consumption, and finally, takes up legal and ethical approaches to human-animal relations. Animal Geographies compels a profound rethinking of the history of our relations with animals and offers a series of proposals for reconstituting this relationship on a progressive basis.

Contents

• Animals Science and Spectacle in the City: 27
• Notes on Inclusions: 51
• Race Place and the HumanAnimal Divide: 72
• Are You Man Enough Big and Bad Enough? Wolf Eradication: 91
• Zoopolis: 119
• The Cougars Tale: 139
• Golden Eagles and the Environmental Politics of Care: 162
• THK POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ANIMAL BODIES: 191
• Animals as Deities Capital and Meat: 218
• Fat Profits in Lean Meat: 241
• A Comparative: 259
• Animals Ethics and Geography: 280
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS: 298

About the author

Wolch is Professor of Geography at the University of Southern California.

Emel is Associate Professor of Geography at the Clark University Graduate School of Geography.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Animal Geographies: Place, Politics, and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands
• Editors: Jennifer Wolch, Jody Emel
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Verso, 1998
• ISBN: 1859841376, 9781859841372
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy