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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This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences.
1. Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of Politics, Practices and Human-Animal Relations2. The Salmon Domus as a Site of Mediation3. 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 Monkeys6. Housing Eiders – Making Heritage: The Changing Context of the Human-Eider Relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway7. Muscox in a Box and Other Tales of Containers as Domesticating Mediators in Animal Relocation8. How Much is that Doggy in the Window? The Aesthetics of Shelter Animal Display9. Concrete Kingdoms: Heini Hediger’s Territories at the Zurich Zoo10. Care and Tinkering in the Animal House: Conditioning Monkeys for Poliomyelitis Research and Public Health Work11. 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 Medicine13. Closing the Barn Door
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781138547155
Publisert
2018-02-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
228
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.