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.

Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

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<p>This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences.</p>

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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781138854116
Publisert
2016-05-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
580 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
216

Biographical note

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.