Geographies of human-animal interactions

Geographies of human-animal interactions examines how relationships between humans and other species are shaped by and expressed through specific places, spaces, and material environments — from industrial farms and urban parks to conservation zones and domestic households. Rather than treating animals as passive backdrops to human social life, researchers draw on multispecies ethnography and non-representational theory to attend to the affects, emotions, and embodied encounters that constitute shared worlds across species lines. Questions of biopolitics run throughout, asking who decides which animals live, die, move freely, or are confined, and how those decisions are inscribed in landscape and policy. Active directions include rethinking ethical frameworks that can account for animal agency and more-than-human vulnerabilities, particularly as the Anthropocene reshapes the conditions under which species coexist.

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AffectGeographyMultispecies EthnographyEmotionSpaceMateriality