Reordering the Natural World

Sabloff, Annabelle

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“…People's view of nature will influence the way in which wildlife is controlled or managed in urban environments. Thus, the way in which people construct their idea of animals reflects their conception, not only of nature, but also of society (Sabloff, ). Botkin () explains that environmental issues can only be effectively confronted once people change their perception of nature.…”

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Pigeons and people: mortal enemies or lifelong companions? A case study on staff perceptions of the pigeons on the University of South Africa, Muckleneuk campus

2016

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Pigeons have been a part of our lives for as long as we can remember. Some people view them with joy, others disdain. Regardless of the perception, control measures are often implemented against the birds in a bid to reduce their presence in urban environments without considering the views of members of the public in the process. Complaints about pigeon activity are, typically, given more attention than praise for these birds. However, people who are pro-pigeons are often not provided with the forum to express their views of the birds. This study explored the perceptions of staff with regard to the pigeons inhabiting the University of South Africa's Muckleneuk campus. Two hundred and forty-six participants provided their opinions on the pigeons, their related activities and the perceived impact on staff on the campus. Recognising that both people and urban wildlife play a role of cause-and-effect in human-wildlife conflicts can contribute to understanding peoples' relationships and perceptions of animals which transgress the boundaries between urbanisation and nature. By considering peoples' perceptions, attitudes and behaviours towards urban wildlife, management strategies can be significantly informed in the process of mitigating conflict. The study has shown that the negative perception of pigeons, which was assumed to be the position of all the people affected by the pigeons at the University of South Arica's Muckleneuk campus, is in fact incorrect. Participants would rather encourage the nesting and breeding activities of the pigeons on campus, as they felt that the human-pigeon interactions and the viewing of squabs in nests contributed positively to their work environment. Pigeon control strategies should therefore not solely be on the biological aspect of a perceived pigeon problem, but should also include the human association.

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Pigeons and people: mortal enemies or lifelong companions? A case study on staff perceptions of the pigeons on the University of South Africa, Muckleneuk campus

2016

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“…There were a lot of people who were upset about Samson, and this is a way for them to heal’ ” (Tardani 1997a:A10). Unlike artistic renderings of wildlife in public settings where people may never have any contact with such animals (Sabloff 2001), this sculpture compels the viewer both to confront the assault on Samson and to consider the memorial's implicit claim—that Estes is a community which affirms, unequivocally, the intrinsic value of wildlife and the natural world.…”

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“…Naturalists are likely to extend their creed well beyond ecomorphic constructions of charismatic species. They are also likely to deconstruct discourses that divide nature and culture (Sabloff 2001), critique theologies that marginalize and subordinate the nonhuman, deride rigid demarcations between good and bad animals, spotlight contradictions enervating purportedly “pro‐environmental” messages (King 1994), and challenge imagined geographies' prevailing orthodoxies about place, animals, and the natural world (Wolch and Emel 1998; Philo and Wilbert 2000). In addition, they are likely to assail the reigning, human‐centered conception of community as reductionistic and exclusionary, and propose replacing it with a more inclusive, ecologically informed vision of the terminal community.…”

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Losing Samson: Nature, Crime, and Boundaries

Colomy

Granfield

2010

The Sociological Quarterly

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This article examines a community's reaction to the poaching of a large elk. Extending the Durkheimian approach to nature, crime, law, and social control, this study discusses the anguish and anger provoked by the infraction, tributes to the fallen animal, calls for more severe and certain sanctions for poaching, and the boundaries affirmed in the incident's aftermath. The implications of this communal response to a wildlife offense for criminalization and conceptions of community are considered.

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“…Most social scientists today recognize that the ontological separation between nature and culture is a modernist fiction (Latour 1993). It has become sociological commonsense that animals and nature are socially and culturally mediated (Greider and Garkovich 1994;Herda-Rapp and Goedeke 2005;Sabloff 2001). Recent schol-ars, particularly in several edited volumes of cultural geography (Anderson et al 2003;Philo and Wilbert 2000;Wolch and Emel 1998), focus on how humans' situated relations with animals both reflect and structure their understandings of self and community.…”

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Animal Practices, Ethnicity, and Community: The Turkish Pigeon Handlers of Berlin

Jerolmack

2007

Am Sociol Rev

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Though largely overlooked by scholars of ethnicity and culture, animal practices can structure and reflect identity and social relations. Based on individual and group interviews and observations in Berlin, Germany, this study examines how a group of Turkish men experience and assign significance to the activity of caring for domestic pigeons. Building on approaches to ethnicity that follow the “cognitive turn,” as well as recent studies of human-animal interaction and cultural examinations of nature and the environment, this article demonstrates how: (1) these men frame their animal practices within their understandings of ethnicity, culture, and territory; and (2) communal relationships formed through pigeon caretaking reinforce definitions of Turkish ethnicity and culture for participants. Beyond offering in situ data on the link between animal practices and ethnicity, the analyses and case suggest how and why sociologists should consider animals and nature as potential constitutive objects of ethnic identity and culture.

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Reordering the Natural World

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Pigeons and people: mortal enemies or lifelong companions? A case study on staff perceptions of the pigeons on the University of South Africa, Muckleneuk campus

Pigeons and people: mortal enemies or lifelong companions? A case study on staff perceptions of the pigeons on the University of South Africa, Muckleneuk campus

Losing Samson: Nature, Crime, and Boundaries

Animal Practices, Ethnicity, and Community: The Turkish Pigeon Handlers of Berlin

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