Globalizing wildlife / edited by Raf De Bont, Vanessa Bateman, and Tom Quick.

Other author Bont, Raf de, 1977- editor.
Other author Bateman, Vanessa editor
Other author Quick, Tom active 2023- editor.
Format Book
PublicationChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2026]
Description330 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Human-animal relationships--History. --20th century.
Human-animal relationships--History. --19th century.
Human-animal relationships--Case studies.
Globalization--History. --20th century.
Globalization--History. --19th century.
Introduced organisms--Economic aspects.
Zoogeography.

SeriesFlows, migrations, and exchanges
Contents Globalizing wildlife, wilding the global / Raf De Bont, Tom Quick, and Vanessa Bateman -- The global passages of the grey parrot / Nancy J. Jacobs -- Globalizing endangered species: the Przewalski's horse between zoo and steppe / Monica Vasile -- Caring for chimps as viral kin / Gregg Mitman -- "Nature's GPS": animal navigation research between biology and engineering in the second half of the twentieth century / Simone Schleper -- Storying the sly mongoose: from ratter to cautionary tale / Vincent Bijman and Raf De Bont -- Brown bear diplomacy during the cold war / George Iordachescu -- Rats, islands, and global infrastructure / Jules Skotnes-Brown -- Cosmopolitan animals, rooted exhibits: global entanglements at Antwerp Zoo / Raf De Bont -- Wild animals in the globalized and fragmented São Paulo metropolis / Regina Horta Duarte -- Fungibility on the logistical coast: coaxing and containing the California sea otter / Christina Dunbar-Hester -- Rogue weed and royal feline: the making of a "landscape of ruin" in South India / Ajit Menon and Nitin D. Rai -- Historical perspectives on the globalization of wildlife / James L. A. Webb, Jr.
Abstract "Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the latest in a long line of forces affecting human-animal relations. Grey parrots traveled the world as pets; rats used global shipping infrastructure to spread to far-off islands and became the object of cross-border extermination campaigns; and California sea otters were relocated to accommodate global oil transportation needs. The language of globalization, however, is rarely used to understand the history of these creatures. Globalizing Wildlife shows how wild animals were not simply affected by globalization but shaped its concrete trajectories at local, national, and international scales. The editors and contributors of this collection bring the more-than-human turn to globalization studies, foregrounding not only how globalization matters for wildlife but also how wildlife matters for and constitutes globalization. The volume presents a range of geographically- and species-diverse case studies spanning from the 1870s to the present day to show that globalizing wildlife is far from a homogenous process. Ultimately, contributors reconceptualize globalization and wildlife in relation to one another and foster new connections between the longstanding study of globalization and the dynamic, rapidly consolidating field of historical animal studies. Contributors are Vincent Bijman, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Regina Horta Duarte, George Iordachescu, Nancy J. Jacobs, Ajit Menon, Gregg Mitman, Nitin D. Rai, Simone Schleper, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Monica Vasile, and James L. A. Webb Jr"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCase studies
LCCN 2025045068
ISBN9781469694740 cloth
ISBN1469694743
ISBN9781469694757 paperback
ISBN1469694751
ISBNepub
ISBNpdf
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