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 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). 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
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780804783583
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8358-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Cultural Lives of Law
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)