Animal cities : beastly urban histories

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Animal cities : beastly urban histories

edited by Peter Atkins

Routledge, 2016

  • : pbk.

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Originally published: Farnham: Ashgate, 2012

Includes bibliographical references

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: Animal Wastes and Nuisances in Nineteenth-Century London
  • 3: The 'Charmed Circle'
  • 4: The Urban Blood and Guts Economy
  • 5: This Nefarious Traffic: Livestock and Public Health in Mid-Victorian Edinburgh 1
  • 6: Undesirable Nature: Animals, Resources and Urban Nuisance in Nineteenth-Century Paris
  • 7: Locating the Transformation of Sensibilities in Nineteenth-Century London
  • 8: Fowls and the Contested Productive Spaces of Australian Suburbia, 1890-1990
  • 9: Between the Muzzle and the Leash: Dog-walking, Discipline, and the Modern City 1

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