1st Edition
Winged Worlds Common Spaces of Avian-Human Lives
Learning to live in winged worlds: introduction
Olga Petri
Part I Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Out of Place
1. Displaying displacement: exhibiting extinct birds in natural history museums
Dolly Jørgensen
2. Pigeons and other strangers in post-war Britain
Philip Howell
3. Migration at the limit: More-than-human creativity and catastrophe
Andrew J. Whitehouse
4. Humans and birds on British farms, 1950–2000
Paul Merchant
Part II Making Sense of Shared Space
5. Airborne: experience and atmospheric movements in falconry practice
Sara Asu Schroer
6. Sonic habitats: aerial nomadism and the sound of birds
Patricia Jäggi
7. The changing geographies of human-starling relations in the shared spaces of the Anthropocene
Andy Morris
8. The public lives of pigeon passengers: how pigeons and humans share space on a train
Shawn Bodden
Part III Flights of Fancy
9. Birds as winged words: a reading of Aristophanes, The Birds
Jeremy Mynott
10. Birds and Christian imagery
Roger S. Wotton
11. Early modern Toucans in space and imagination
Alex Lawrence
12. Peregrine flights: the emergence of digital winged geographies
William M. Adams, Adam Searle, and Jonathon Turnbull
Biography
Olga Petri is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Researcher in the Geography Department of Cambridge University. Her main interest is in the cultural and historical geographies, social communities and more-than-human assemblages in urban spaces shaped by the modern bureaucratic state. She is the author of Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siecle St. Petersburg (2022).
Michael Guida is a Research Associate in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. He is a writer and a historian of nature in modern British urban culture, with a particular interest in human-avian relations. His first book is called Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life, 1914-1945 (2022).
