Winged Worlds by Petri, Olga; Guida, Michael;

Rövid leírás:

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.

Hosszú leírás:

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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Learning to live in winged worlds: introduction

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

Dolly Jørgensen

Andrew J. Whitehouse

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

Paul Merchant

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

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

12. Peregrine flights: the emergence of digital winged geographies

William M. Adams, Adam Searle, and Jonathon Turnbull