Zooland - The Institution of Captivity

Zusatztext "Brave and important, this new work puts the governance of animals at the heart of the debates about governance more broadly. Zooland opens up our understandings of social and spatial management, surveillance, classification and control, helping us understand the impact of such human social processes on nonhumans." Informationen zum Autor Irus Braverman is Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009). Klappentext We all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zusammenfassung We all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than sixty interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland.

Product details

• Authors: Irus Braverman, Braverman Irus
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2012
• EAN: 9780804783576
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8357-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law; The Cultural Lives of Law; Zooland
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Zoos und Wildparks: Sachbuch