Critical Animal Geographies

<p><em>Critical Animal Geographies</em> provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounters. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, postcolonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life – human and not – violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes – violence, death, life, autonomy – of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up with overlapping axes of power and exploitation, including gender, race, class, and species.</p> <p>1 Introduction <br>Rosemary- Claire Collard and Kathryn Gillespie</p><p><strong>PART I Politics</strong> </p><p>2 Animal geographies, anarchist praxis, and critical animal studies <br>Richard J. White</p><p>3 Practice as theory: learning from food activism and performative protest <br>Eva Giraud</p><p>4 Pleasure, pain, and place: ag-gag, crush videos, and animal bodies on display<br>Claire Rasmussen</p><p><strong>PART II Intersections</strong> </p><p>5 Wildspace: the cage, the supermax, and the zoo<br>Karen M . Morin</p><p>6 Commodification, violence, and the making of workers and ducks at Hudson Valley Foie Gras <br>John Joyce, Joseph Nevins, and Jill S. Schneiderman</p><p>7 Species, race, and culture in the space of wildlife management<br>Anastasia Yarbrough</p><p>8 Pit bulls, slavery, and whiteness in the mid- to late-nineteenth-century U.S.: geographical trajectories; primary sources <br>Heidi J. Nast</p><p><strong>PART III Hierarchies</strong> </p><p>9 Coyotes in the city: gastro-ethical encounters in a more-than-human world<br>Gwendolyn Blue and Shelley Alexander</p><p>10 Livelier livelihoods: animal and human collaboration on the farm<br>Jody Emel, Connie L. Johnston, and Elisabeth (Lisa) Stoddard</p><p>11 En-listing life: red is the color of threatened species lists<br>Irus Braverman</p><p>12 Doing critical animal geographies: future directions <br>Rosemary- Claire Collard and Kathryn Gillespie</p>