Overview

This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as the zoo, the laboratory, the farm and the animal shelter, to name a few, the book explores material technologies from the perspective that these are integrated parts of a larger biopolitical infrastructure and questions how animal housing systems, and the physical infrastructures that surround central human-animal practices, come into being. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

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Author:   Kristian Bjørkdahl ,  Tone Druglitrø
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781138854116

ISBN 10:   1138854115
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   17 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of Politics, Practices and Human-Animal Relations 2. The Salmon Domus as a Site of Mediation 3. What is a Cow? The Invention of the Freestall and How Cows Lost Their Horns 4. When the Battery Cage Came to Norway: The Historical Path of an Agro-Industrial Artifact 5. Back to Nature! Rehabilitating Danish Research Monkeys 6. Housing Eiders – Making Heritage: The Changing Context of the Human-Eider Relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway 7. Muscox in a Box and Other Tales of Containers as Domesticating Mediators in Animal Relocation 8. How Much is that Doggy in the Window? The Aesthetics of Shelter Animal Display 9. Concrete Kingdoms: Heini Hediger’s Territories at the Zurich Zoo 10. Care and Tinkering in the Animal House: Conditioning Monkeys for Poliomyelitis Research and Public Health Work 11. Care in the Cage: Materializing Moral Economies of Animal Care in the Biomedical Sciences, c. 1945- 12. The Spatial Arrangements of Making Research Piglets into Resources for Translational Medicine 13. Closing the Barn Door

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Kristian Bjørkdahl is a Researcher at the Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, in Bergen, Norway. Tone Druglitrø is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway.

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