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Animal Cities by Peter Atkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Peter Atkins

Current price: $103.95
Animal Cities by Peter Atkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Animal Cities by Peter Atkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Animal Cities by Peter Atkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Peter Atkins

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Animal Cities builds upon a recent surge of interest about animals in the urban context. Considering animals in urban settings is now a firmly established area of study and this book presents a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted. Having an 'urban history' flavour, the book follows a fourfold agenda. First, the opening chapters look at working and productive animals that lived and died in nineteenth-century cities such as London, Edinburgh and Paris. The argument here is that their presence yields insights into evolving understandings of the category 'urban' and what made a good city. Second, there is a consideration of nineteenth-century animal spectacles, which influenced contemporary interpretations of the urban experience. Third, the theme of contested animal spaces in the city is explored further with regard to backyard chickens in suburban Australia. Finally, there is discussion of the problem of the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to public space, illustrated with a chapter on dog-walking in Victorian and Edwardian London. Animal Cities makes a significant contribution to animal studies and is of interest to historical geographers, urban, cultural, social and economic historians and historians of policy and planning. | Animal Cities by Peter Atkins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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