Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories

Urbanik, Julie

doi:10.1080/14649365.2013.821288

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“…The animal movements and occupation of space that qualify as transgressions change over time, as can be seen in the emergence of the 19th century 'sanitary city' described by Atkins, where particular animal species were first classified as vermin. 16 In the non-urban settings of outback Australia,…”

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Dilemmas of transgression: ethical responses in a more-than-human world

Carter

Palmer

2016

cultural geographies

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Journal: cultural geographiesManuscript ID CGJ-15-0063.R3Manuscript Type: Article Keywords:topologies, transgression, Fraser Island, dingo, Human-nonhuman relations, animal ethics Abstract:To transgress is "to do something that is not allowed"; in a humanconstructed world, animals, especially those seen as 'incompanionate', are often deemed to be doing something not allowed. We explore the ethical dilemmas of 'transgression' in the context of critical reflection on an instructive example of dingo-human relations on Fraser Island, Australia, which has incited ongoing debate from diverse publics about the killing of 'problem' dingoes. We outline the historical and ethical complexity of such relations, and suggest that human-nonhuman encounters, direct or indirect, have the potential to produce new, less anthropocentric topologies in which transgression is reconstructed and humans and animals can share space more equitably. The kind of knowledge and ethical re-positioning beginning to emerge in dingo-human relations, suggests transgression itself as a metaphor for its further re-imagining: a disruption of spatial, emotional and ethical boundaries to shape more responsive, respectful and less anthropocentric topologies.

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“…described by Atkins, where particular animal species were first classified as vermin 16 . In the non-urban settings of outback Australia:…”

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