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  • Winged Worlds: Common Spaces of Avian-Human Lives

    Winged Worlds by Petri, Olga; Guida, Michael;

    Common Spaces of Avian-Human Lives

    Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series;

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    Short description:

    This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight.

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    Long description:

    This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight.


    This book offers a timely contribution to the more-than-human geographies of flight, space and territory. The chapters support an ethics of attention as a new basis for the conservation and cultivation of aerial habitats. Contributions adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the patterns of intrusion and escape that shape our encounters with birds and unsettle our traditionally terrestrial concepts of space. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of our shared lives with birds, ranging from scientific observation to the social media-enabled spectacle of co-habitation and spatial competition.


    Written in a thought-provoking style, this book seeks to address a dearth of critical perspectives on the cultural geographies of flight and its implications for the ways in which we understand common spaces around and above us in the context of any effort at conservation.

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    Table of Contents:

    Learning to live in winged worlds: introduction


    Olga Petri



    Part I Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Out of Place


    1. Displaying displacement: exhibiting extinct birds in natural history museums




    Dolly Jørgensen



    2. Pigeons and other strangers in post-war Britain


    Philip Howell



    3. Migration at the limit: More-than-human creativity and catastrophe


    Andrew J. Whitehouse



    4. Humans and birds on British farms, 1950–2000


    Paul Merchant



    Part II Making Sense of Shared Space



    5. Airborne: experience and atmospheric movements in falconry practice


    Sara Asu Schroer



    6. Sonic habitats: aerial nomadism and the sound of birds


    Patricia Jäggi


    7. The changing geographies of human-starling relations in the shared spaces of the Anthropocene


    Andy Morris



    8. The public lives of pigeon passengers: how pigeons and humans share space on a train


    Shawn Bodden



    Part III Flights of Fancy



    9. Birds as winged words: a reading of Aristophanes, The Birds


    Jeremy Mynott



    10. Birds and Christian imagery


    Roger S. Wotton



    11. Early modern Toucans in space and imagination


    Alex Lawrence



    12. Peregrine flights: the emergence of digital winged geographies


    William M. Adams, Adam Searle, and Jonathon Turnbull

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