Domestication Gone Wild - Politics and Practices of Multispecies RelationsPaperback / softback
Domestication Gone Wild - Politics and Practices of Multispecies RelationsPaperback / softback The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of…
Specifikacia Domestication Gone Wild - Politics and Practices of Multispecies RelationsPaperback / softback
Domestication Gone Wild - Politics and Practices of Multispecies RelationsPaperback / softback
The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of civilization's emergence. Contending that domestication retains considerable value as an analytical tool, the contributors to Domestication Gone Wild reengage the concept by highlighting sites and forms of domestication occurring in unexpected and marginal sites, from Norwegian fjords and Philippine villages to British falconry cages and South African colonial townships. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the domestication narrative has informed and justified dominant and often destructive practices.
Challenging idioms of animal husbandry as human mastery and progress, the contributors push beyond the boundaries of farms, fences, and cages to explore how situated relations with animals and plants are linked to the politics of human difference-and, conversely, how