Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness - The Contradictions of Care in Conservation Practice

How our understanding of and relationship to hedgehogs reveals the complex interactions between culture, technology, bodies, conservation, and care for other animals. Across the globe, the bumbling hedgehog has been framed in a variety of ways throughout history--as an animal of both good and bad luck, of transformation, of vengeance, and of wit and reincarnation. In recent years, it has also, in different parts of the world, been viewed as a pest for their predation on ground-nesting birds and has thus become a target for culling. In Grounded in rich empirical material and careful critique,

Product details

• Authors: Laura McLauchlan
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.05.2024
• EAN: 9780262548106
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54810-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Natural History, NATURE / Animals / Mammals, Conservation of the environment