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E-book Animal Metropolis : Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

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Beaver. Moose. Caribou. Think “animal” in Canada, and these and other iconic creatures of the Canadian wilderness are sure to come first to mind. Yet Canada has become increasingly urban since Confederation, to the extent that more than 80 per cent of the population today is considered to live in an urban setting.1 That urban identity has shaped profoundly the material and cultural contexts of human/nonhuman animal relations. Emblematic megafauna aside, urban Canadians are far more likely to en-counter in their daily lives anything from dogs and cats to deer, squirrels, raccoons, sparrows, foxes, rabbits, skunks, pigeons, mice, cockroaches, crows, and coyotes, not to mention the many species encountered primar-ily in the form of consumer goods. It is to that dimension of the urban ex-perience, in all its barking, mooing, neighing, chirping, chewing, digging, foraging, performing, and more perfunctory forms, that we turn. The essays in this collection explore the intersection of a variety of human and nonhuman animals as they negotiate their way in Canada’s urban spaces. They bring together a diverse range of perspectives, includ-ing but not limited to insights derived from animal, environmental, cul-tural, critical animal, posthumanist, and species studies; social analyses of class, race, and gender; and the colonial and imperial contexts of hu-man–animal relations. Balancing this diversity is their common apprecia-tion of the temporal dimensions of that relationship. In its own way, each essay contributes to the topic a sense of historical contingency derived from a wide range of methodological innovations, empirical sources, and ethical considerations. In doing so, they collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals largely as objects within human-centred inquiries to one that considers at various levels of complex-ity their eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation with human ani-mals. In the process, the essays underscore the blurry nature of the spatial boundaries – urban, rural, wilderness – so often employed as interpretive frameworks for human–animal interaction. In short, they indicate clearly the impact of Canada’s urban identity on how Canadians think about and experience their nonhuman counterparts, and in turn on the many animals that live in, move through, or otherwise encounter urban Canada.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

304.271 ARC a

Penerbit

Canada : University of Calgary Press., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

361 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781552388662

Klasifikasi

304.271

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Human Ecology in Canada

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