1st Edition

Animals and Landscapes Multispecies Locations, Space and Place

Edited By Claire Parkinson, Brett Mills Copyright 2026
230 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores various connections between animals and landscapes, challenging traditional anthropocentric framings and acknowledging the agency of other-than-human species in shaping human surroundings. A critical departure from traditional perspectives, Animals and Landscapes challenges the prevalent anthropocentric and ocularcentric approaches to the scenic landscape. Instead, the... Read more

Introduction

Claire Parkinson and Brett Mills

Section I Screened Locations

1. Television Documentary and Animal Landscapes

Brett Mills

2. The Death of Mother(s): The Disruption, Destruction and Renewal of Forest Life in Disney’s Bambi (1942)

Peter Krämer

3. The Problematic Romanticism of Yellowstone’s Human–Animal–Landscape Relationships

Lara Herring

4. Brumbies between Reality and Imagination in The Silver Brumby Film (1993)

Bianca Friedman

 

Section II Imagined Spaces

5. “We are all corals now.” Corals as World Builders in Contemporary Art

Jessica Ullrich

6. Hearing from Hybrid Creatures: Surreal Tales of the Human/Animal/Vegetable in a Watery Landscape

Victoria Foster

7. Puppetry, Landscape, Animals and Plants: Three Audio-Visual Responses to Jacob von Uexkhüll’s Concept of Umwelt

Hing Tsang

8. Margaret Atwood’s Canadian Landscape: Defining a Country through Nonhuman Animals

Sofia Duarte

 

Section III Multispecies Places

9. The People’s Puma as Place-maker in Los Angeles

Katja M. Guenther

10. Following Lines of Oyster-Shells: Multispecies Heritage in the Shifting Estuarine Landscapes of Dyarubbin

Nicole Matthews

11. Dog Walking Landscapes: Canine Agency and Private Dog Fields

Claire Parkinson

Biography

Claire Parkinson is Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies, Co-director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS), and Associate Head of the English and Creative Arts Department at Edge Hill University, UK.

Brett Mills is Honorary Professor of Media and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Animals on Television: The Cultural Making of the Non-Human and co-author of two editions of Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts.