Animal Housing and Human-Animal Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures

by Kristian Bjørkdahl (Editor), Tone Druglitrø (Editor)

Overview

This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as the zoo, the laboratory, the farm and the animal shelter, to name a few, the book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being.

Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317524670
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/12/2016
Series:	Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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