1st Edition

Animal Housing and Human–Animal Relations Politics, Practices and Infrastructures

Edited By Kristian Bjørkdahl, Tone Druglitrø Copyright 2016
240 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1 Animal Housing/Housing Animals: Nodes of Politics, Practices and Human-Animal Relations

Kristian Bjørkdahl and Tone Druglitrø

2 The Salmon Domus as a Site of Mediation

Marianne Lien and John Law

3 What is a Cow? The Invention of the Freestall and How Cows Lost Their Horns

Beat Bächi

4 When the Battery Cage Came to Norway: The Historical Path of an Agro-Industrial Artifact

Kristian Bjørkdahl

5 Back to Nature! Rehabilitating Danish Research Monkeys

Lene Koch and Mette Nordahl Svendsen

6 Housing Eiders – Making Heritage: The Changing Context of the Human-Eider Relationship in the Vega Archipelago, Norway

Knut Fageraas

7 Muscox in a Box and Other Tales of Containers as Domesticating Mediators in Animal Relocation

Dolly Jørgensen

8 How Much is that Doggy in the Window? The Aesthetics of Shelter Animal Display

Irene Gustafson

9 Concrete Kingdoms: Heini Hediger’s Territories at the Zurich Zoo

Christina May

10 Care and Tinkering in the Animal House: Conditioning Monkeys for Poliomyelitis Research and Public Health Work

Tone Druglitrø

11 Care in the Cage: Materializing Moral Economies of Animal Care in the Biomedical Sciences, c. 1945-

Robert G. W. Kirk

12 The Spatial Arrangements of Making Research Piglets into Resources for Translational Medicine

Mette Nordahl Svendsen

13 Closing the Barn Door

Henry Buller

Biography

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.