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Episode 5: Animals as Immigrants

 

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In this episode, we look at Animals as Immigrants. Animal movement across the globe and boundaries happens within contested spaces leaving animals wanted, unwanted, forced, coerced or in liminal landscapes of uncertainty.


 

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Participants:

PodCrew:

Michelle Szydlowski

PhD Candidate, University of Exeter 

ms835@exeter.ac.uk 

www.internationalelephants.org

Kris Hill

PhD Student, University of Exeter

kh458@exeter.ac.uk

https://katzenlife.wordpress.com/ 

Sarah Oxley Heaney

PhD Student, University of Exeter 

sh750@exeter.ac.uk

www.kissingsharks.com

Podlet Guests

 

Tom Aeillo

PhD Candidate, University of Exeter

Associate professor of history and African American studies.

https://www.thomasaiellobooks.com/contact

Jes Hooper

PhD Student, University of Exeter

jh1220@exeter.ac.uk 

www.thecivetproject.com

 

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Cronen, W. (1995) The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. W.W. Norton & Co. New York. pp. 69-90

 

Costello, K., 2008. “ Re-huminization”: the role of human-animal similarity in predicting prejudice towards immigrants and non-human animals. Brock University.

 

Crowley, S.L., 2014. Camels Out of Place and Time: The Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) in Australia. Anthrozoos A Multidiscip. J. Interact. People Anim. 27, 191–203.

 

D'Cruze N, Macdonald DW (2016) Tip of an iceberg: global trends in CITES wildlife confiscations. Nature Conservation 15: 47-63. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.15.10005

 

Donaldson, S., Kymlicka, W., 2011. Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights: : 9780199673018: Amazon.com: Books. Oxford University Press., New York.

 

Elton, C. S. (2020). The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Germany: Springer International Publishing Hall, J. (2016)

 

What Happens to Smuggled Animals After They’re Seized? National Geographic online. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/09/wildlife-watch-animals-seized-smugglers/

 

Helmreich, S., 2005. How Scientists Think; About “Natives”, for Example. A Problem of Taxonomy among Biologists of Alien Species in Hawaii. J. R. Anthropol. Inst. 11, 107–128.

 

Ingold, T. (2005). Epilogue: Towards a Politics of Dwelling. Conservation and Society, 3 (2) 501–508

 

Kalof, L., & Amthor, R. F. (2010). Cultural Representation of Problem Animals in National Geographic. Etudes rurales, (185), 165-180.

 

UK Government, 2019. Bringing your pet dog, cat or ferret to the UK - GOV.UK [WWW Document]. Gov.uk. URL https://www.gov.uk/bring-pet-to-uk (accessed 12.5.20).

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