Interested readers can gain an understanding of the foundational texts that explore the complex and dynamic roles that humans and animals play in one another’s lives across varied time-places. Here I have included these readings to introduce people to a rapidly evolving field of inquiry that is part of a broader body of research on human-animal relations. Though this list is by no means exhaustive, it is intended to articulate the evocative argument that humans’ relations with animals go beyond the who or what in the world to include the when and where (Emel & Wolch, 1998). Specifically, the readings explore and integrate frameworks that theorize human-animal relationships as “simultaneously biological, cultural, economic, ethical, geographic, and political” (Urbanik, 2012). … Given the wide-range of disciplines, methods, and frameworks these readings integrate, this list has profound potential to inform policy-makers, conservation advocates, and scientific researchers alike. …
April 8, 2014
Humans, Animals, and Conservation Environments
hannahjaicks
Hannah Jaicks is a doctoral candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Graduate Research Assistant in the Office of the Provost at Hunter College. Her past and present research addresses issues related to human-wildlife conflict using interdisciplinary methods from animal behavior, participatory human geography, and environmental studies. Her dissertation rethinks the placements of humans as fellow predators in the conflicts over coexistence with large carnivores in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. She co-founded the Public Environmental Engagement Research Group, and she is a co-organizer of the annual Nature, Ecology, and Society Colloquium and the annual Undergraduate Research Conference at Hunter College. Hannah’s interests include qualitative research methodologies, critical animal geography, political and cultural ecology, and science studies.
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