Geographies of human-animal interactions

Geographies of human-animal interactions examines how the lives of humans and other species are entangled across shared spaces, asking not just where these encounters happen but how they are felt, structured, and governed. Researchers draw on multispecies ethnography and non-representational theory to attend to emotion, materiality, and the bodily dimensions of relations that more conventional social science tends to overlook or flatten into abstraction. The stakes are partly ethical and partly political: as the Anthropocene reshapes ecosystems and biopolitical regimes extend ever further into the management of animal life, understanding how power and care operate across species boundaries becomes urgent. Active questions include how urban and agricultural spaces encode particular human-animal hierarchies, and whether new theoretical vocabularies — around affect, naturecultures, and more-than-human agency — can genuinely unsettle those arrangements or merely redescribe them.

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AffectGeographyMultispecies EthnographyEmotionSpaceMateriality