Urban Animals

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?

Autorentext

Tora Holmberg is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Senior Lecturer as at the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Urban Animals Part I: Animals in the City Chapter 2: Bodies on the Beach. Allowability and the Politics of Place Chapter 3: Stranger Cats. Homelessness and Ferality in the City Part II: HumAnimal Transgressions Chapter 4: Verminizing. Making Sense of Urban Animal Hoarding Chapter 5: Feline Femininity. Emplacing Cat Ladies Part III: The Promises of Crowding in ZooCities Chapter 6: Beyond Crowd Control Chapter 7: Open Endings (with Katja Aglert)