A5001380343- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
Florida International University
2019-2023
Urban human-cat relations depend on complex and contingent systems of overlapping policies, ordinances, laws. Cats defy anthropocentric binaries boundaries. In response to the problematic use term 'feral', a rife with negative associations, many government agencies, including those in Miami-Dade Broward Counties Florida, have rebranded this population as 'community' cats. This investigation explores transspecies liminality experienced by both free-roaming, or 'community', cats their urban...
Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis. In this special issue, authors offer generative tools grounded other-than-human standpoint inviting us to "think cities" differently. They re-examine right city and a more-than-human commons; evaluate why when species become "killable"; rethink territoriality, attending ways other-than humans make remake cities. reconceptualize urban as ecological formation, entangling cultivated, feral...
Under traditional programmes, unclaimed cats entering animal shelters were euthanized by barbiturate injection; since the implementation of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), are sterilised and returned to streets. TNR not only made live – they work for politics through a technique tracking releases from shelter system gain public support. However, biopolitical techniques more than counting life persists beyond statistic. This paper traces underexplored consequences 'nuisance wildlife' removal laws...
Ferality, as a concept, may be hopeful potential of thriving life in the Anthropocene; however, ferality remains problematically grounded contested nature-culture binaries. Government programs continue to use classification and valuation technology, ultimately, mathematical solution political nightmare. By approaching trap-neuter-return (TNR) policies Miami through technopolitical framework, this paper critically examines technologies used identify, measure, value free-roaming urban animals...