Animal Metropolis

Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada

AvJoanna Dean,Darcy Ingram

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racialized memory of Jumbo the elephant in St. Thomas, Ontario. Others examine the bodily intimacies of shared urban spaces: the regulation of rabid dogs in Banff, the maternal politics of pure milk in Hamilton and the circulation of tetanus bacilli from horse to human in Toronto. Another considers the marginalization of women in Canada's animal welfare movement.The authors collectively push forward from a historiography that features nonhuman animals as objects within human-centered inquiries to a historiography that considers the eclectic contacts, exchanges, and cohabitation of human and nonhuman animals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-28
Mått:153 x 223 x 22 mm
Vikt:561 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Canadian History and Environment
Antal sidor:358
Förlag:University of Calgary Press
ISBN:9781552388648
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Cover Design 2018

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Joanna Dean is associate professor of History at Carleton University, where she teaches animal history and environmental history. Darcy Ingram teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, where he works on social movements, environmentalism, and environmental governance. Christabelle Sethna is an historian and associate professor who teaches in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on reproduction, colonialism, and, more recently, representations of animals. George Colpitts is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary. He has published five books, as well as contributing numerous chapters and journal articles to academic publications. Colpitts is the winner of both the American Society for Ethnohistory's 2012 Robert F. Heizer Prize and the 2010 Frederick C. Luebke Award for outstanding regional scholarship.

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It is gratifying to see more involvement from historians in this broad and growing area. - Margaret E. Derry, The Canadian Historical Review

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Canamalia UrbanisDarcy Ingram, Christabelle Sthna, and Joanna Dean1. The Memory of an Elephant: Savagery, Civilization and SpectacleChristabelle Sethna 2. The Urban Horse and the Shaping of Montreal, 1840-1914Sherry Olson 3. Wild Things; Taming Canada's Animal Welfare MovementDarcy Ingram 4. Fish out of Water: Fish Exhibition in Late Nineteenth-Century CanadaWilliam Knight 5. The Beavers of Stanley ParkRachel Poliquin 6. Species at Risk: C. Tetani, the Horse and the HumanJoanna Dean 7. Got Milk? Dirty Cows, Unfit Mothers, and Infant Mortality, 1880-1940Carla Hutak8. Howl: The 1952-56 Rabies Crisis and the Creation of the Urban Wild at BanffGeorge Colpitts 9. Arctic Capital: Managing Polar Bears in Churchill, ManitobaKristoffer Archibald 10. Cetaceans in the City: Orca Captivity, Animal Rights, and Environmental Values in VancouverJason ColbyEpilogue: Why Animals Matter in Urban History, or Why Cities Matter in Animal HistorySean Kheraj Contributors Index