Petropolis: a social history of urban animal companions

Olson, Roberta J. M.; Hulser, Kathleen

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“…In many ways, cities are at the forefront of redefining human -dog relations and new 'social contracts and even political alignments' (Olson and Hulser 2003). In Australian cities, the combination of high levels of dog ownership and strict legislative control of dogs in public space has resulted in impassioned contestation over the place of dogs in urban space.…”

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The trouble with dogs: ‘animaling’ public space in the Australian city

Instone

Sweeney

2014

Continuum

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The trouble with dogs: ‘animaling’ public space in the Australian city

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2014

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“…The decline in urban livestock of the 19th‐century city led to a rise in household pets (Olson and Hulser, ), and today, 40% of households in Australia own a dog, one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world (Australian Companion Animal Council, ). Dogs are significant actors in domestication and daily urban life and have maintained a place in the city as companions, with a special status somewhere in‐between the poles of the human–animal binary.…”

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“…Dogs are significant actors in domestication and daily urban life and have maintained a place in the city as companions, with a special status somewhere in‐between the poles of the human–animal binary. Increasingly, dogs are becoming entangled in and constitutive of urban cultures (Urbanik and Morgan, ) and are altering urban spatial politics (Olson and Hulser, ). However, these social shifts of the past decades pull in contrary directions.…”

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Dog Waste, Wasted Dogs: The Contribution of Human–Dog Relations to the Political Ecology of Australian Urban Space

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Sweeney

2014

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The city is increasingly recognised as a complex more-than-human space where the lives of humans and non-humans entwine in consequential ways. Humananimal encounters constitute sometimes convivial and sometimes challenging relations that reflect wider pleasures and tensions in urban society. This paper grapples with concerns about the place of dogs in Australian urban public space and urban life more broadly. Adopting a relational political ecology approach, we ask what pet dogs tell us about the political, emotional, and material struggles that surround multispecies urban cohabitation. Following two human-dog urban waste streams -one concerned with dog waste, the other with dogs as waste -we consider how human-animal relations of both attachment and disposability shape the material flows that constitute urban political ecologies. In particular, by focusing on the 'shadow ecologies' of dog waste and disposal, we uncover the dynamic practices of care, disgust, violence, and love through which dogs, their waste, and their bodies are sanitised, controlled, and ultimately concealed from our everyday urban spaces.

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“…and Hulser 2003) "carno-phallologocentrism," (Derrida 1991), even "zooanthropology" and "anthrozoology" run the gamut of disciplines and suggest a shared program of creative disciplinary disturbance.…”

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(De)Facing the Animals: Zooësis and Performance

Chaudhuri¹

2007

TDR/The Drama Review

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How can an animal look you in the face? That will be one of our concerns.-Jacques Derrida (2002:377) Did your food have a face? -People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals poster (2001) As my two epigraphs suggest, the burgeoning field of animal studies encompasses a vast cultural territory, ranging-contentiously 1 -from philosophy to activism, and including anthropology, sociology, history, psychology, art history, cinema, and literary studies. This special issue of TDR extends an exploration, begun several years ago (see Read 2000), of the intersections of this new field with performance studies. 2 In proposing the term "zooësis" (Chaudhuri 2003) to designate the activity at these intersections, I am conscious of indulging a neologistic impulse that has become a characteristic of animal studies; a symptom, perhaps, of its desire to intervene radically in established discourses and their terms of art.

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Petropolis: a social history of urban animal companions

Cited by 10 publications

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The trouble with dogs: ‘animaling’ public space in the Australian city

The trouble with dogs: ‘animaling’ public space in the Australian city

Dog Waste, Wasted Dogs: The Contribution of Human–Dog Relations to the Political Ecology of Australian Urban Space

(De)Facing the Animals: Zooësis and Performance

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