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Animal Agendas: Conflict over Productive Animals in Twentieth-Century Australian Cities

Animal Agendas: Conflict over Productive Animals in Twentieth-Century Australian Cities <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Over the course of the twentieth century, the number of productive nonhuman animals (livestock and poultry) in Australian cities declined dramatically. This decline resulted—at least in part—from an imaginative geography, in which productive animals were deemed inappropriate occupants of urban spaces. A class-based prioritization of amenity, privacy, order, and the protection of real property values—as well as a gender order within which animal-keeping was not recognized as a legitimate economic activity for women—shaped this imaginative geography of animals that found its most critical expression in local government regulations. However, there were different imaginative geographies among women and men—mostly those from the working class—whose emotional and economic relationships with productive animals led them to advocate for those animals as legitimate and desirable urban inhabitants.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

Animal Agendas: Conflict over Productive Animals in Twentieth-Century Australian Cities

Society & Animals , Volume 15 (1): 29 – Jan 1, 2007

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1063-1119
eISSN
1568-5306
DOI
10.1163/156853007X169324
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Over the course of the twentieth century, the number of productive nonhuman animals (livestock and poultry) in Australian cities declined dramatically. This decline resulted—at least in part—from an imaginative geography, in which productive animals were deemed inappropriate occupants of urban spaces. A class-based prioritization of amenity, privacy, order, and the protection of real property values—as well as a gender order within which animal-keeping was not recognized as a legitimate economic activity for women—shaped this imaginative geography of animals that found its most critical expression in local government regulations. However, there were different imaginative geographies among women and men—mostly those from the working class—whose emotional and economic relationships with productive animals led them to advocate for those animals as legitimate and desirable urban inhabitants.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Society & AnimalsBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: AUSTRALIA; IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHY; GENDER; GOATS; DAIRY; POULTRY; COWS; ANIMALS IN HISTORY; URBAN ANIMALS

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