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Guest Editors’ Introduction

Guest Editors’ Introduction Rats in European parlors, reindeer on the Norwegian tundra, banteng roaming the Australian delta, cats sharing an urban U.S. neighborhood with humans and coyotes, and parrots inhabiting both the forests of New Zealand and virtual networks in the World Wide Web are all discussed in this special issue. While a widely spread and unusual assortment of beings, representatives from each are brought together by an internationally diverse group of scholars under the common theme: “Animals in Place.” The inspiration for this theme is quite simple: place matters. Encounters between humans and nonhuman animals always take place somewhere, in a particular setting, at a particular time, between particular individuals. A testament to an increasing importance of place 1 in animal scholarship is the relatively new and rapidly growing field of animal geography. With “Bringing the Animals Back In,” a 1995 special issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , and “Through the Geographical Looking Glass,” a special theme issue of Society & Animals in 1998, the contemporary field of (cultural) animal geography became more visible and markedly distinguished itself from zoogeography, by turning much needed attention to individuals and concentrating on more qualitative, cultural, and ethical dimensions http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Society & Animals Brill

Guest Editors’ Introduction

Warkentin, Traci; Watson, Gavan P.L.
Society & Animals , Volume 22 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 2014
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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1063-1119
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1568-5306
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10.1163/15685306-12341315
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Abstract

Rats in European parlors, reindeer on the Norwegian tundra, banteng roaming the Australian delta, cats sharing an urban U.S. neighborhood with humans and coyotes, and parrots inhabiting both the forests of New Zealand and virtual networks in the World Wide Web are all discussed in this special issue. While a widely spread and unusual assortment of beings, representatives from each are brought together by an internationally diverse group of scholars under the common theme: “Animals in Place.” The inspiration for this theme is quite simple: place matters. Encounters between humans and nonhuman animals always take place somewhere, in a particular setting, at a particular time, between particular individuals. A testament to an increasing importance of place 1 in animal scholarship is the relatively new and rapidly growing field of animal geography. With “Bringing the Animals Back In,” a 1995 special issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space , and “Through the Geographical Looking Glass,” a special theme issue of Society & Animals in 1998, the contemporary field of (cultural) animal geography became more visible and markedly distinguished itself from zoogeography, by turning much needed attention to individuals and concentrating on more qualitative, cultural, and ethical dimensions

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Society & Animals – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2014

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