1st Edition
Animal Housing and Human–Animal Relations Politics, Practices and Infrastructures
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. The contributions in the book show in various ways how physical infrastructures of animal housing are always part of a much broader sociocultural and political infrastructure, where the material reality of housing systems combines with human and animal agents, with politics, and with practices. As such, the book explores what kind of practices and relations develop around the physical structures of animal housing, and by whom, and for whom, they are developed. This innovative collection will be of great interest to student and scholars in animal studies, more than human studies, geography, anthropology, and sociology.
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.
