Animal Housing and Humananimal Relations - Politics, Practices and Infrastructures

Informationen zum Autor Kristian Bjørkdahl is a Researcher at the Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, in Bergen, Norway. Tone Druglitrø is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway. Zusammenfassung This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of Politics, Practices and Human-Animal Relations 2. The Salmon Domus as a Site of Mediation 3. What is a Cow? The Invention of the Freestall and How Cows Lost Their Horns 4. When the Battery Cage Came to Norway: The Historical Path of an Agro-Industrial Artifact 5. Back to Nature! Rehabilitating Danish Research Monkeys 6. Housing Eiders – Making Heritage: The Changing Context of the Human-Eider Relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway 7. Muscox in a Box and Other Tales of Containers as Domesticating Mediators in Animal Relocation 8. How Much is that Doggy in the Window? The Aesthetics of Shelter Animal Display 9. Concrete Kingdoms: Heini Hediger’s Territories at the Zurich Zoo 10. Care and Tinkering in the Animal House: Conditioning Monkeys for Poliomyelitis Research and Public Health Work 11. Care in the Cage: Materializing Moral Economies of Animal Care in the Biomedical Sciences, c. 1945- 12. The Spatial Arrangements of Making Research Piglets into Resources for Translational Medicine 13. Closing the Barn Door

Product details

• Authors: Kristian Druglitr Bjrkdahl
• Assisted by: Kristian Bjørkdahl (Editor), Tone Druglitrø (Editor), Tone uglitrø (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2016
• EAN: 9781138854116
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85411-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, History of Science, environmental science, engineering & technology, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Social groups, communities and identities