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Care and its discontents: Commodification, coercive cooperation, and resistance in Copenhagen Zoo
Contributor(s):: Mc Loughlin, E.
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Toward Human-Carnivore Coexistence: Understanding Tolerance for Tigers in Bangladesh
| Contributor(s):: Chloe Inskip, Neil Carter, Shawn Riley, Thomas Roberts, Douglas MacMillan
Fostering local community tolerance for endangered carnivores, such as tigers (Panthera tigris), is a core component of many conservation strategies. Identification of antecedents of tolerance will facilitate the development of effective tolerance-building conservation action and secure...
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Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean
| Contributor(s):: Assali, Hadeel
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Bison, Bears, and Borders: Animals and the Performance of National Communities
| Contributor(s):: Tregar, Kristen Lauren
According to Benedict Anderson, nations exist as an imagined community, tethered to geographic features but primarily existing in human minds, facilitating the development of human collectives. Throughout these processes, non-human animals have participated in this imagining from its earliest...
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The Spectacular Environmentalism of Cecil the Lion
| Contributor(s):: McCubbin, Sandra Gillian
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Animal Welfare Worldwide, the Opinion of Practicing Veterinarians
| Contributor(s):: Endenburg, N., Takashima, G., van Lith, H. A., Bacon, H., Hazel, S. J., Jouppi, R., Lee, N. Y. P., Seksel, K., Ryan, S.
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Socio-Economic Factors in Companion Animal Relinquishment on the Sunshine Coast, Australia
| Contributor(s):: Carter, J., Taylor, C. S.
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Animal geographies I: Hearing the cry and extending beyond
| Contributor(s):: Gibbs, Leah M.
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Animal geographies I: Globalizing and decolonizing
| Contributor(s):: Hovorka, Alice J.
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Therapeutic landscapes and non-human animals: the roles and contested positions of animals within care farming assemblages
| Contributor(s):: Gorman, Richard
The concept of therapeutic landscapes has been used as a way to critically understand how health and well-being are related to place. However, traditional discourses on therapeutic landscapes have been constructed from an anthropocentric perspective, completely ignoring and silencing the agency...
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Sociocultural aspects of attitudes toward marine animals: a focus group analysis
| Contributor(s):: Unna Lassiter, Jennifer R. Wolch
In geographic research of the past decade, the understanding of nature-society relations has broadened to include ideas about our relationship with and attitudes toward animals. In this study, we explore the relationship between attitudes toward marine animals and...
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From zoogeography to animal geography: the spatial commodification of animals
| Contributor(s):: Chris Mayda
Zoogeography developed as a Newtonian/Cartesian science in the early nineteenth century as descriptive classification. After Darwin it evolved into biogeography, an explanatory, then predictive science, often aligned with and even indistinguishable from ecology. As a science,...
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Using radar cross-section to enhance situational awareness tools for airport avian radars
| Contributor(s):: Nohara, T. J., Beason, R. C., Weber, P.
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The current state of welfare, housing and husbandry of the English pet rabbit population
| Contributor(s):: Rooney, N. J., Blackwell, E. J., Mullan, S. M., Saunders, R., Baker, P. E., Hill, J. M., Sealey, C. E., Turner, M. J., Held, S. D.
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A Research Framework for the Geographic Study of Exotic Pet Mammals in the USA
| Contributor(s):: Gabrielle C. Tegeder
Exotic animals are not well-represented in geographic studies, even in the emerging sub-field of animal geography. With the dearth of exotic animal studies, and the relevance of exotic pets in the public consciousness and in the news, a basic, introductory study such as this is necessary to begin...
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Pets in the city: Managing surplus dogs in Syracuse, New York
| Contributor(s):: Cutler, Kristin
This thesis contributes to the growing interest in animals in geography. Specifically, it situates pets within the geographic literature and addresses the causes and consequences of pet love in the United States. Using Syracuse, New York as a case study, this thesis illuminates the critical yet...
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Re-ordering the natural world: Human-animal relations in a Canadian urban setting
| Contributor(s):: Sabloff, Annabelle
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Animal geographies II: Methods
| Contributor(s):: Buller, Henry
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Making Space for Mexican Wolves: Technology, Knowledge and Conservation Politics
| Contributor(s):: Paula D. Decker
The use of geospatial technologies, including radio telemetry, GPS collars, and mapping software, has proliferated in wildlife conservation. In addition to being tools for research, though, tracking devices are increasingly used to control animals that have been reintroduced to natural areas....
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Camels in Saudi oasis during the last two millennia; the examples of Dumat al-Jandal (Al-Jawf Province) and al-Yamama (Riyadh Province)
| Contributor(s):: Monchot, H.
By its extraordinary adaptability to live in a hyper arid environment, the camel ( Camelus dromaderius) is certainly the animal that best characterizes the Arabian Peninsula. If a rich ethnographic literature exists showing the economic importance of this species through the last two millennia,...
