The Ancestors of Pandemic Pets and Vector Animals

Lisa Jean Moore — 2021-05-11T05:00:00Z

How has the place—and role—of animals in the city evolved over the last two centuries, and what bearing have these changes had on the urban fabric, and above all on the way urbanites relate to animals today? Lisa Jean Moore reviews Animal City, by Andrew A. Robichaud, which considers these questions from a US perspective.
Humans have had to reconsider their everyday life with animals during the Covid‑19 pandemic. Specifically, we have had to confront our proximity to animals (humans and

- Reviews / human–animal relations, animals, pandemic, Covid-19, coronavirus, United States, city

Floods, Animals and Shared Urban Futures?

Leonie Tuitjer — 2018-04-10T05:00:00Z

When the city of Bangkok flooded following tropical storms in 2011, an altered urban waterscape erased the neat divide between human and nonhuman spaces. Leonie Tuitjer draws attention to two recurrent themes of interspecies interaction in the flood's aftermath: sacrifices and compromises people made to protect companion animals, and anxieties generated by wild animals that had taken refuge in or near human settlements.
---- Series: Climate Change and Social Change Southeast Asia is one of

- From the Field / water, climate change, flooding, interspecies interaction, human–animal relations, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Bangkok

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The Ancestors of Pandemic Pets and Vector Animals

Floods, Animals and Shared Urban Futures?