1st Edition

Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia

Edited By Victor Teo Copyright 2023
272 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the theme of human–animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene. Focused on China and its immediate Asian borderlands, this interdisciplinary collection provides a powerful and insightful analysis of the ecological challenges that mankind’s traditional activities have created. Through in-depth case studies, each focusing on a particular human–animal... Read more

1. Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia: Culture, Development and the Politics
Victor Teo
2. "Rearing the Rare": History, Co–existence and Contestation of Wildlife Conservation in the Singalila National Park, Darjeeling, India
Sangay Tamang
3. A Mongolian Muzzle in the Chinese Grasslands: The Shifting Uses of the Camel in Nomadic Pastoralism and Festivities
Aurore Dumont
4. Reindeer, Taiga, Ethnic Culture: State-Forced Resettlement and the Changing Human-Animal Interactions in the Aoluguya Ewenki Community
Hang Lin
5. Yak Dzongs in Sikkim Himalayas: Spaces of Conflict in the Making
Bhim Subba

6. Turtles Amid Healing and Extinction: International Relations and Question of Animal Agency in the South China Sea Disputes
Carmina Yu Untalan
7. From Colonial Science to the Genome age: The Politics of Asian Giant Salamander Conservation
Lisa Yoshikawa
8. The Destiny of China’s Honeybees in the Anthropocene
Keokam Kraisoraphong
9. Human-wildlife interface and socio-cultural ecology of zoonotic Outbreaks in Anthropocene China
Yoon Sungwon
10. Tiger Parks in Anthropocene China: Culture, Capitalism and the Limits of Conservation
Victor Teo

Biography

Victor Teo is a political scientist specializing in the International Relations of the Indo-Pacific. He was most recently The Cold War Visiting Research Fellow at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK; and Wang Gungwu Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.