Animal geographies II

Hovorka, Alice J.

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“…However, in this paper, we argue that conservation biologists’ scientific scholarship and public communications are indeed producing insights into the lives of animals; animal geographers have recently begun to recognize this and have made calls for more collaboration with natural scientists [37,42,43]. Bringing together different perspectives of animals may therefore be more fruitful for understanding the inner lives of animals in a non-anthropocentric way [17,37,43].…”

Section: Animal Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Compassionate conservation and animal geography, a sub-discipline of human geography, share two important foundational tenets: (1) both bodies of scholarship developed as a response to the ethical and political responsibilities we hold toward the animals we share our world with [42,44]; and (2) both bodies of scholarship seek to ensure that (individual) animals’ needs are not simply ignored or unthinkingly placed below humans’ needs [7,15,44]. However, animal geography also moves beyond these anthropocentric concerns and attempts to understand the lives of animals in and of themselves, not only as individuals, but as beings who have lived experiences and agency [37,38,43,45,46]. Animal geography is therefore well-positioned to contribute to extending the field of compassionate conservation by highlighting these aspects.…”

Section: Animal Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Compassionate Conservation: Exploring the Lives of African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Botswana

Fraser-Celin

Hovorka

2019

Animals

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Simple SummaryThis paper argues that animals should be positioned as subjects in research and scholarship to further develop compassionate conservation, a new field that aims to bridge conservation biology and animal welfare science. Animals can be treated as subjects by attending to their lived experiences and by recognizing their capacity to act. This paper merges interviews, blog posts, biological research, and observations to position African wild dogs as subjects in conservation research and scholarship using responsible anthropomorphism. It presents wild dogs as thinking, feeling, and sentient animals who have agency (capacity to act), and whose welfare is negatively affected by habitat loss and conflict with farmers. By positioning wild dogs as subjects, we can develop an ethical starting point for a more compassionate conservation. This ‘enriched’ scholarship allows us to more fully appreciate the complex lives of wildlife, their circumstances, and their experiences.AbstractThis paper argues for a more compassionate conservation by positioning animals as subjects in research and scholarship. Compassionate conservation is a multidisciplinary field of study that broadly attends to the ethical dimensions of conservation by merging conservation biology and animal welfare science. However, animal geography is rarely discussed in the compassionate conservation scholarship despite sharing similar tenets. This paper argues that responsible anthropomorphism and animal geography concepts of animal subjectivity (lived experiences) and agency (capacity to act) positions African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) as subjects in conservation research and scholarship. It merges biological research, public communication, and interview and participant observation data to present wild dogs as thinking, feeling, self-conscious animals with agency, and whose welfare is negatively affected in human-dominated landscapes in Botswana. This paper argues for more attention to be paid to animal subjectivity and agency to foster more compassionate relations with wildlife. It argues that positioning animals as subjects in research and scholarship is an ethical starting point for moving compassionate conservation forward. This ‘enriched’ scholarly approach moves us closer to appreciating the lives of wildlife and the complexity of their circumstances and experiences.

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Section: Animal Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Animal Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Compassionate Conservation: Exploring the Lives of African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Botswana

Fraser-Celin

Hovorka

2019

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“…For a start, as Braidotti () argues, they have comfortably co‐existed in and co‐facilitated the emergence of a number transdisciplinary “hubs,” ‐ creative yet applied empirical convergences of posthumanism. These include biosocial and biopolitics studies (Rutherford & Rutherford, ), science and technology studies (Greenhough, ), arts performance studies (Boyd, ), physical culture studies (Spinney, ), sensory studies (Paterson, ), animal relations studies (Hovorka, ), hybrid/hybridity studies (Whatmore, ) and, to an extent, parts of new mobilities (Merriman, ), and emotional studies (Anderson & Harrison, ). Of course, all of these theoretical orientations and empirical convergences appear in, and are contributed to by, social science and humanities disciplines other than human geography.…”

Section: Moving Towards a Posthumanist Contributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Andrews

2019

Geography Compass

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This paper explores possibilities for extending the geographical imagination in academic studies of social work. It notes how current "geographical" research is extensive and diverse-including interests in social and natural environments, practice settings, and global issues-but argues for a change whereby it is more explicitly informed by, and cast as, human geography. Part of this change would involve a transition in basic enterprise, whereby researching social work geographically shifts from being a one-way effort on the part of academic social workers, to being a two-way project also involving geographers. Another part would be

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“…I engage osprey cultural geographies via a hybrid conceptual frame (see Hovorka, ) drawing inspiration from “speculative” approaches to ethology (the science of animal behaviour). Such work continues the maverick, creative, creaturely spirit championed by early pioneers of ethological study (see Lorimer, ).…”

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Cultural geographies of extinction: Animal culture among Scottish ospreys

Garlick

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper explores cultural geographies of extinction. I trace the decline of the Scottish osprey during the 19th century and its enduring, haunting presence in the landscape today. Taking inspiration from the environmental humanities, extinction is framed as an event affecting losses that exceed comprehension in terms merely of biological species numbers and survival rates. Disavowing the “species thinking” of contemporary conservation bio‐politics, the osprey's extinction story pays attention to the worth of “animal cultures.” Drawing a hybrid conceptual framework from research in the environmental humanities, “speculative” ethology and more‐than‐human geographies, I champion an experimental attention to the cultural geographies of animals in terms of historically contingent, communally shared, spatial practices and attachments. In doing so, I propose non‐human cultural geographies as assemblages that matter, and which are fundamentally at stake in the face of extinction.

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Animal geographies II

Cited by 89 publications

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Compassionate Conservation: Exploring the Lives of African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Botswana

Compassionate Conservation: Exploring the Lives of African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Botswana

Working social assemblages: Towards a new geography of social work

Cultural geographies of extinction: Animal culture among Scottish ospreys

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