This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight.
This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight.
Olga Petri is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Researcher in the Geography Department of Cambridge University. Her main interest is in the cultural and historical geographies, social communities and more-than-human assemblages in urban spaces shaped by the modern bureaucratic state. She is the author of Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siecle St. Petersburg (2022). Michael Guida is a Research Associate in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. He is a writer and a historian of nature in modern British urban culture, with a particular interest in human-avian relations. His first book is called Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life, 1914-1945 (2022).
Inhaltsangabe
Learning to live in winged worlds: introduction Olga Petri Part I Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Out of Place 1. Displaying displacement: exhibiting extinct birds in natural history museums Dolly Jørgensen 2. Pigeons and other strangers in post-war Britain Philip Howell 3. Migration at the limit: More-than-human creativity and catastrophe Andrew J. Whitehouse 4. Humans and birds on British farms, 1950-2000 Paul Merchant Part II Making Sense of Shared Space 5. Airborne: experience and atmospheric movements in falconry practice Sara Asu Schroer 6. Sonic habitats: aerial nomadism and the sound of birds Patricia Jäggi 7. The changing geographies of human-starling relations in the shared spaces of the Anthropocene Andy Morris 8. The public lives of pigeon passengers: how pigeons and humans share space on a train Shawn Bodden Part III Flights of Fancy 9. Birds as winged words: a reading of Aristophanes, The Birds Jeremy Mynott 10. Birds and Christian imagery Roger S. Wotton 11. Early modern Toucans in space and imagination Alex Lawrence 12. Peregrine flights: the emergence of digital winged geographies William M. Adams, Adam Searle, and Jonathon Turnbull
Learning to live in winged worlds: introduction Olga Petri Part I Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Out of Place 1. Displaying displacement: exhibiting extinct birds in natural history museums Dolly Jørgensen 2. Pigeons and other strangers in post-war Britain Philip Howell 3. Migration at the limit: More-than-human creativity and catastrophe Andrew J. Whitehouse 4. Humans and birds on British farms, 1950-2000 Paul Merchant Part II Making Sense of Shared Space 5. Airborne: experience and atmospheric movements in falconry practice Sara Asu Schroer 6. Sonic habitats: aerial nomadism and the sound of birds Patricia Jäggi 7. The changing geographies of human-starling relations in the shared spaces of the Anthropocene Andy Morris 8. The public lives of pigeon passengers: how pigeons and humans share space on a train Shawn Bodden Part III Flights of Fancy 9. Birds as winged words: a reading of Aristophanes, The Birds Jeremy Mynott 10. Birds and Christian imagery Roger S. Wotton 11. Early modern Toucans in space and imagination Alex Lawrence 12. Peregrine flights: the emergence of digital winged geographies William M. Adams, Adam Searle, and Jonathon Turnbull
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