Geographies of human-animal interactions

Geographies of human-animal interactions examines how relationships between humans and other species are shaped by, and in turn reshape, the spaces and places we share — from urban streets and farms to conservation zones and laboratory settings. Researchers draw on multispecies ethnography and theories of affect and materiality to move beyond treating animals as passive backdrops to human life, instead asking how emotions, bodies, and environments co-constitute one another across species lines. Questions of ethics and biopolitics run through this work: who decides which animals live or die, under what conditions, and with what justification? Active directions include rethinking what counts as agency in more-than-human worlds and tracing how the accelerating pressures of the Anthropocene are forcing new kinds of entanglement between human societies and nonhuman life.

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AffectGeographyMultispecies EthnographyEmotionSpaceMateriality