Animals and Landscapes

Multispecies Locations, Space and Place
Herausgeber: Mills, Brett; Parkinson, Claire

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores various connections between animals and landscapes, challenging traditional anthropocentric framings and acknowledging the agency of other-than-human species in shaping human surroundings. A critical departure from traditional perspectives, Animals and Landscapes challenges the prevalent anthropocentric and ocularcentric approaches to the scenic landscape. Instead, the contributors adopt a multispecies lens, prioritising the more-than-human and illuminating the intricate relationships between bodies, actions, and place. The chapters navigate a range of environments, exploring visual and aesthetic experiences as well as the entanglements of place, action, bodies and subjectivities. In doing so the authors discuss historical, geographical, social, economic, and cultural frameworks that shape landscapes, revealing the often-ignored agency of non-human species. Moving beyond human-centric framings of landscapes, it acknowledges the active role that other species play in shaping, using, and producing these environments. Central to this thematic exploration is the idea that animals have their own geographies and act as place-making agents. Underscoring the dynamic role animals play in shaping the spaces they inhabit, this volume encourages a re-evaluation of the narratives that have predominantly marginalised the role of animals in shaping our understanding of place. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to academics and students of sociology, visual culture, geography, and cultural studies, film, and media and television studies with interests in landscape studies and human-animal studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032872230
• ISBN-10: 1032872233
• Artikelnr.: 75569849

Autorenporträt

Claire Parkinson is Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies, Co-director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS), and Associate Head of the English and Creative Arts Department at Edge Hill University, UK. Brett Mills is Honorary Professor of Media and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of Animals on Television: The Cultural Making of the Non-Human and co-author of two editions of Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section 1: Screened locations 1. Television Documentary and
Animal Landscapes 2. The Death of Mother(s): The Disruption, Destruction
and Renewal of Forest Life in Disney's Bambi (1942) 3. The Problematic
Romanticism of Yellowstone's Human-Animal-Landscape Relationships 4.
Brumbies between reality and imagination in The Silver Brumby film (1993)
Section 2: Imagined spaces 5. "We are all corals now." Corals as World
Builders in Contemporary Art 6. Hearing from hybrid creatures: Surreal
tales of the human/animal/vegetable in a watery landscape 7. Puppetry,
landscape, animals and plants: Three audio-visual responses to Jacob von
Uexkhüll's concept of Umwelt 8. Margaret Atwood's Canadian Landscape:
Defining a Country through Nonhuman Animals Section 3: Multispecies places
9. The People's Puma as Place-maker in Los Angeles 10. Following lines of
oyster-shells: multispecies heritage in the shifting estuarine landscapes
of Dyarubbin 11. Dog walking landscapes: canine agency and private dog
fields