Urban Animals
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Urban Animals
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Author : Tora Holmberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-27
Urban Animals written by Tora Holmberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with Science categories.
The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subjected to complaints; they transgress geographical, legal as and cultural ordering systems, while roaming the city in what is often perceived as uncontrolled ways. But they are also objects of care, conservation practices and bio-political interventions. What then, are the "more-than-human" experiences of living in a city? What does it mean to consider spatial formations and urban politics from the perspective of human/animal relations? This book draws on a number of case studies to explore urban controversies around human/animal relations, in particular companion animals: free ranging dogs, homeless and feral cats, urban animal hoarding and "crazy cat ladies". The book explores ‘zoocities’, the theoretical framework in which animal studies meet urban studies, resulting in a reframing of urban relations and space. Through the expansion of urban theories beyond the human, and the resuscitation of sociological theories through animal studies literature, the book seeks to uncover the phenomenon of ‘humanimal crowding’, both as threats to be policed, and as potentially subversive. In this book, a number of urban controversies and crowding technologies are analysed, finally pointing at alternative modes of trans-species urban politics through the promises of humanimal crowding - of proximity and collective agency. The exclusion of animals may be an urban ideology, aiming at social order, but close attention to the level of practice reveals a much more diverse, disordered, and perhaps disturbing experience.
Urban Animals
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Author : Mireille Silcoff
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Urban Animals written by Mireille Silcoff and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Humor categories.
Wild In The City
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Author : Lonely Planet Kids
language : en
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Wild In The City written by Lonely Planet Kids and has been published by Lonely Planet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discover the secret lives of the extraordinary creatures that share our cities. From red foxes sneaking rides on London buses to leopards prowling the backstreets of Mumbai, this book explores the clever ways animals have adapted to the urban environment and gives tips on how you can help protect our wild neighbours.
Civilized Creatures
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Author : Jennifer Mason
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005-08-04
Civilized Creatures written by Jennifer Mason and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-04 with History categories.
In Civilized Creatures, Jennifer Mason challenges some of our most enduring ideas about how encounters with nonhuman nature shaped American literature and culture. Mason argues that in the second half of the nineteenth century the most powerful influence on Americans' understanding of their affinities with animals was not increasing separation from the pastoral and the wilderness; instead, it was the population's feelings about the ostensibly civilized animals they encountered in their daily lives. Americans of diverse backgrounds, Mason shows, found it attractive as well as politic to imagine themselves as most closely connected to those creatures who shared humans' aptitude for civilized life. And to the minds of many in this period, national prosperity depended less on periodic exposure to untamed, wild nature than it did on the proper care and keeping of such animals within suburban and urban environments. Combining literary analysis with cultural histories of equestrianism, petkeeping, and the animal welfare movement, Civilized Creatures offers new readings of works by Susan Warner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles W. Chesnutt. In each case, Mason demonstrates that understanding contemporary relationships between humans and animals is essential for understanding the debates about gender, race, and cultural power enacted in these texts.
City Critters
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Author : Nicholas Read
language : en
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Release Date : 2012
City Critters written by Nicholas Read and has been published by Orca Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the lives of wild animals that live in a North American urban environment--
Field Guide To Urban Wildlife
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Author : Julie Feinstein
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2011-01-13
Field Guide To Urban Wildlife written by Julie Feinstein and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-13 with Nature categories.
Identify and understand the wildlife most commonly found living near humans--and how they've adapted to thrive in cities and suburbs.
Urban Animals
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Author : Tora Holmberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-27
Urban Animals written by Tora Holmberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with Science categories.
The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subjected to complaints; they transgress geographical, legal as and cultural ordering systems, while roaming the city in what is often perceived as uncontrolled ways. But they are also objects of care, conservation practices and bio-political interventions. What then, are the "more-than-human" experiences of living in a city? What does it mean to consider spatial formations and urban politics from the perspective of human/animal relations? This book draws on a number of case studies to explore urban controversies around human/animal relations, in particular companion animals: free ranging dogs, homeless and feral cats, urban animal hoarding and "crazy cat ladies". The book explores ‘zoocities’, the theoretical framework in which animal studies meet urban studies, resulting in a reframing of urban relations and space. Through the expansion of urban theories beyond the human, and the resuscitation of sociological theories through animal studies literature, the book seeks to uncover the phenomenon of ‘humanimal crowding’, both as threats to be policed, and as potentially subversive. In this book, a number of urban controversies and crowding technologies are analysed, finally pointing at alternative modes of trans-species urban politics through the promises of humanimal crowding - of proximity and collective agency. The exclusion of animals may be an urban ideology, aiming at social order, but close attention to the level of practice reveals a much more diverse, disordered, and perhaps disturbing experience.
Urban Wildlife Habitats
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Author : Barbara Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Urban Wildlife Habitats written by Barbara Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Urban animals categories.
Describes the various species of wildlife that inhabit urban environments and how these wild animals have adapted to living in human cities all around the world.
Urban Wildlife Conservation
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Author : Robert A. McCleery
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Urban Wildlife Conservation written by Robert A. McCleery and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Science categories.
In the past, wildlife living in urban areas were ignored by wildlife professionals and urban planners because cities were perceived as places for people and not for wild animals. Paradoxically, though, many species of wildlife thrive in these built environments. Interactions between humans and wildlife are more frequent in urban areas than any other place on earth and these interactions impact human health, safety and welfare in both positive and negative ways. Although urban wildlife control pest species, pollinate plants and are fun to watch, they also damage property, spread disease and even attack people and pets. In urban areas, the combination of dense human populations, buildings, impermeable surfaces, introduced vegetation, and high concentrations of food, water and pollution alter wildlife populations and communities in ways unseen in more natural environments. For these ecological and practical reasons, researchers and mangers have shown a growing interest in urban wildlife ecology and management. This growing interest in urban wildlife has inspired many studies on the subject that have yet to be synthesized in a cohesive narrative. Urban Wildlife: Theory and Practice fills this void by synthesizing the latest ecological and social knowledge in the subject area into an interdisciplinary and practical text. This volume provides a foundation for the future growth and understanding of urban wildlife ecology and management by: • Clearly defining th e concepts used to study and describe urban wildlife, • Offering a cohesive understanding of the coupled natural and social drivers that shape urban wildlife ecology, • Presenting the patterns and processes of wildlife response to an urbanizing world and explaining the mechanisms behind them and • Proposing means to create physical and social environments that are mutually beneficial for both humans and wildlife.
Feral Cities
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Author : Tristan Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2015-04-01
Feral Cities written by Tristan Donovan and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Nature categories.
We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities, Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wild creatures that we share our streets and homes with, and profiles the brave and fascinating people who try to manage them. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails that are invading Miami, the boars that roam Berlin, and the monkey gangs of Cape Town. From feral chickens and carpet-roaming bugs to coyotes hanging out in sandwich shops and birds crashing into skyscrapers, Feral Cities takes readers on a journey through streets and neighborhoods that are far more alive than we often realize, shows how animals are adjusting to urban living, and asks what messages the wildlife in our metropolises have for us.