Bound by Blood: Biomedical geographies of shrimp, jellyfish, and horseshoe crabs.
This blog highlights some of the biomedical uses of horseshoe crabs, shrimp, and jellyfish. Using (human and nonhuman) blood as a material aspect working across these case studies, we explore how marine animals become entangled within complex global political-economic networks and human bodies, creating new multispecies geographies of illness and health in the process.
The reinvention of industrial pig farming in Catalonia
This blog explores the reinvention of industrial pig farming in Catalonia, and how pigs have been transformed into animals that symbolically and economically sustain the nation.
Historical geographies of the horse in Britain
The horse has shaped our (more-than-) human geography for centuries, but we are not used to thinking about how animals co-construct places. Over a century past the point of ‘peak horse’ in Britain, what is the horse’s legacy and how is its role in social and economic life changing?
The Canada Goose
Described as invasive, a nuisance, and squatters by not only most mainstream media outlets but also by a number of wildlife charities, the much-maligned Canada Goose populations of the UK are important members of our more-than-human urban communities.
What does consuming dog meat mean?
A debate over dog meat has been raging in South Korea for decades. Is the farming and consumption of dogs a matter of animal cruelty, cultural identity, or simply personal choice?
Re: Pig – ways of reimagining (industrially farmed) pigs
The “Sad Animal Modern” – this is the condition of the animals today as identified by Amir (2020). In late capitalism, animals are dominated, exploited and objectified. Real animals have vanished from human relationships and instead have been replaced by a world of empty symbols that we encounter in popular culture, advertising, entertainment.
Public Animal Geographies
‘Animals have been so indispensable to the structure of human affairs and so tied up with our visions of progress and the good life that we have been unable to (even try to) fully see them’
Wolch and Emel, 1995, Animal Geographies, xi