Arguing that historical analysis is an important, yet heretofore largely underexplored dimension of scholarship in animal geographies, this book seeks to define historical animal geography as the exploration of how spatially situated human-animal relations have changed through time. This volume centers on the changing relationships among people, animals, and the landscapes they inhabit, taking a spatio-temporal approach to animal studies. Foregrounding the assertion that geography matters as much as history in terms of how humans relate to animals, this collection offers unique insight into the lives of animals past, how interrelationships were co-constructed amongst and between animals and humans, and how nonhuman actors came to make their own worlds. This collection of chapters explores the rich value of work at the contact points between three sub-disciplines, demonstrating how geographical analyses enrich work in historical animal studies, that historical work is important to animal geography, and that recognition of animals as actors can further enrich historical geographic research.
Author(s): Sharon Wilcox; Stephanie Rutherford
Series: Routledge Human–Animal Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: xiv+214
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 Introduction: a meeting place
PART I The home – shared spaces of cohabitation
2 When did pets become animals?
3 The entwined socioecological histories of the Sawtelle, California war veterans and the animal “menagerie” at the Pacific Branch Soldier’s Home (1888–1918)
4 Shaking the ground: histories of earthworms from Darwin to niche construction
PART II The city – historical animals in and out of sight
5 Zoöpolis
6 Kansas City: the morphology of an American zoöpolis through film
7 The strange case of the missing slaughterhouse geographies
8 The pigs are back again: urban pig keeping in wartime Britain, 1939–45
PART III The nation – historical animal bodies and human identities
9 Rebel elephants: resistance through human–elephant partnerships
10 Western horizons, animal becomings: race, species, and the troubled boundaries of the human in the era of American expansionism
11 For the love of life: coal mining and pit bull fighting in early 19th-century Britain
PART IV The global – imperial networks and the movements of animals
12 Migration, assimilation, and invasion in the nineteenth century
13 Runaways and strays: rethinking (non)human agency in Caribbean slave societies
Epilogue
14 Finding our way in the Anthropocene
Index
