Animal Cities

Beastly Urban Histories
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-24703-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals in the urban context. Considering animals in urban settings is now a firmly established area of study and this book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted. Having an ’urban history’ flavour, the book follows a fourfold agenda. First, the opening chapters look at working and productive animals that lived and died in nineteenth-century cities such as London, Edinburgh and Paris. The argument here is that their presence yields insights into evolving understandings of the category ’urban’ and what made a good city. Second, there is a consideration of nineteenth-century animal spectacles, which influenced contemporary interpretations of the urban experience. Third, the theme of contested animal spaces in the city is explored further with regard to backyard chickens in suburban Australia. Finally, there is discussion of the problem of the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to public space, illustrated with a chapter on dog-walking in Victorian and Edwardian London. Animal Cities makes a significant contribution to animal studies and is of interest to historical geographers, urban, cultural, social and economic historians and historians of policy and planning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkins, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction; 2: Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London; 3: The ‘Charmed Circle'; 4: The Urban Blood and Guts Economy; 5: This Nefarious Traffic: Livestock and Public Health in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh 1; 6: Undesirable Nature: Animals, Resources and Urban Nuisance in Nineteenth-Century Paris; 7: Locating the Transformation of Sensibilities in Nineteenth-Century London; 8: Fowls and the Contested Productive Spaces of Australian Suburbia, 1890–1990; 9: Between the Muzzle and the Leash: Dog-walking, Discipline, and the Modern City 1

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Atkins is a Professorial Fellow in Geography at Durham University. His research is devoted to the historical geography of food systems, particularly with regard to livestock products and zoonotic diseases. His book is Liquid Materialities: a History of Milk, Science and the Law was published by Ashgate in 2010.