Global Pigeon

Informationen zum Autor Colin Jerolmack is assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. Klappentext Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents! the author traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin. Zusammenfassung Drawing on more than three years of fieldwork across three continents! the author traces our complex and often contradictory relationship with these versatile animals in public spaces such as Venice's Piazza San Marco and London's Trafalgar Square and in working-class and immigrant communities of pigeon breeders in New York and Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Jerolmack, Jerolmack Colin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2013
• EAN: 9780226002088
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00208-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries; Fieldwork Encounters and Disco; Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries; Fieldwork Encounters and Disco
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, NATURE / Animals / Birds, NATURE / Birdwatching Guides, Animals & society, Wildlife: birds & birdwatching, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Animals and society