ISBN:
9781000885798
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Geography
Abstract:
This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Learning to Live in Winged Worlds: Introduction -- Avian Encounters -- Winged Worlds: Avian-Human Relations -- Light as a Feather: Geographies of Flight -- Lines of Flight: Spaces of Responsibility -- Outline of Contributions -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Out of sight, out of mind, and out of place -- Chapter 1: Displaying displacement: Exhibiting extinct birds in natural history museums -- Introduction -- Extinction as displacement -- Exhibition as displacement -- The double displacement of exhibiting extinct birds -- Countering the double displacement -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Pigeons and other strangers in post-war Britain -- War, and peace, and the pigeon -- Pigeons, migrants, and the Windrush generation -- The war against commensality -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Migration at the limit: More-than-human creativity and catastrophe -- Introduction -- Limit 1: Tracking movements -- 4 October 2020. Aberdeen, Scotland -- Limit 2: Filling gaps -- 16 December2019. Hakodate, Hokkaido -- Limit 3: Changing direction -- 2 October 2016, Aberdeen, Scotland -- 31 August 2020: North Ronaldsay, Orkney -- Limit 4: Adapt or die -- 29 December 2014. Pak Thale, Thailand -- 12 January 2019. Minjiang Estuary, China -- Creativity and catastrophe -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 4: Humans and birds on British farms, 1950-2000 -- Introduction -- Inattention to birds as a focus of study -- Oral histories of inattention to birds -- Farm birds in childhood -- Prioritising work -- Engaging in schemes and surveys -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Making sense of shared space.
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