The paradoxical nature of growth in the US bison industry

Attuning to laboratory animals and telling stories: Learning animal geography research skills from animal technologists

“…Central to what we uncovered were a whole host of conflicting multispecies relations between humans and nonhuman animals, ranging from those we expected (between ATs and cages filled with mice) to those we did not, including: discussions of pets, past and current; the presence (and absence) of micro-organisms; the traces of other animal encounters (both material and cognitive) we might have carried with us and might carry away; and the ways in which our work led us to ask, and still leads us to ask, uncomfortable questions about relations with other species across all aspects of our personal and professional lives. 4 In short, while other styles of doing animal geography exist (see for example Anderson, 1995; Buller, 2004; Lulka, 2008) this fieldwork found us learning from the ATs both how to attune to animals’ lived experiences and how to deal with the moral contestations that arise from attuning to laboratory animal lives.…”

Animal geographies I

“…Alternatively, these 'beastly spaces' can become, in their turn, metaphors for human marginality (Brownlow, 2000) or more classic forms of urban sociospatial division (Feldman, 2009). Other more recent geographical examples of this approach to exploring the varying cultural and discursive constructions of animals within multiple 'human' spaces can be found in Yeo and Neo's (2010) paper on macaques in a Singapore Nature Reserve, in Franklin's ( 2006) book on the place of animals in the construction of modern Australia, in Lulka's (2008)…”

“…Moving from 'the animal' as conceptual device from which to interrogate the human, through 'animals' as figures in our cultural spaces, we arrive at a more intimate and experienced set of lived and dwelt encounters with actual 'critters', be they dogs (Haraway, 2008), pigeons (Jerolmack, 2008), bison (Lulka, 2008), corncrakes (J. Lorimer, 2008b), seals (H. , cows (Kohler, 2012b), pigs (Porcher and Tribondeau, 2008), alien big cats (Buller, 2004), whales (Cloke and Perkins, 2005), wolves (Brownlow, 2000;Buller, 2008;Lynn, 2010), birds (Hinchliffe and Lavau, 2013), rats (Davies, 2012) or salmon (Law and Lien, 2012).…”