Winged Worlds

Common Spaces of Avian-Human Lives

Olga Petri, Michael Guida

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English

Routledge
26 June 2023

Anthropology; Primary industries; Birds (ornithology); Human geography

Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series

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 book offers a timely contribution to the more-than-human geographies of flight, space and territory. The chapters support an ethics of attention as a new basis for the conservation and cultivation of aerial habitats. Contributions adopt an interdisciplinary approach to the patterns of intrusion and escape that shape our encounters with birds and unsettle our traditionally terrestrial concepts of space. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of our shared lives with birds, ranging from scientific observation to the social media-enabled spectacle of co-habitation and spatial competition.

Written in a thought-provoking style, this book seeks to address a dearth of critical perspectives on the cultural geographies of flight and its implications for the ways in which we understand common spaces around and above us in the context of any effort at conservation.

Edited by: Olga Petri, Michael Guida
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 880g
ISBN: 9781032369716
ISBN 10: 103236971X
Series: Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 26 June 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).