Animal housing and human-animal relations : : politics, practices and infrastructures /

Animal housing and human-animal relations : : politics, practices and infrastructures / / edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl and Tone Druglitrø.

This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as the zoo, the laboratory, the farm and the animal shelter, to name a few, the b...

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Superior document:Routledge Human - Animal Studies Series
TeilnehmendeR:
Bjørkdahl, Kristian.
Druglitrø, Tone.
Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Routledge human-animal studies series.
Physical Description:1 online resource (213 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Animal housing/housing animals : nodes of politics, practices and human-animal relations / Kristian Bjørkdahl and Tone Druglitrø
  • 2. The salmon domus as a site of mediation / Marianne E. Lien and John Law
  • 3. What is a cow? The invention of the freestall and how cows lost their horns / Beat Bachi
  • 4. When the battery cage came to Norway : the historical path of an agro-industrial artifact / Kristian Bjørkdahl
  • 5. Back to nature! Rehabilitating Danish research monkeys / Lene Koch and Mette N. Svendsen
  • 6. Housing eiders, making heritage : the changing context of the human-eider relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway / Knut Fageraas
  • 7. Muskox in a box and other tales of containers as domesticating mediators in animal relocation / Dolly Jørgensen
  • 8. How much is that doggy in the window? The aesthetics of shelter animal display / Irene Gustafson
  • 9. Concrete kingdoms : Heini Hediger's territories at the Zurich Zoo / Christina Katharina May
  • 10. Care and tinkering in the animal house : conditioning monkeys for poliomyelitis research and public health work / Tone Druglitrø
  • 11. Care in the cage : materializing moral economies of animal care in the biomedical sciences, c. 1945- / Robert G.W. Kirk
  • 12. The spatial arrangements of making research piglets into resources for translational medicine / Mette N. Svendsen
  • 13. Closing the barn door / Henry Buller.

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