Historical Animal Geographies - Paperback

by Sharon Wilcox (Editor), Stephanie Rutherford (Editor)

Historical analysis is important to animal geographies, yet few works have yet attempted to represent this confluence in understanding the entangled lives of animals and humans. Foregrounding the assertion that geography matters as much as history in terms of how we relate to animals, this book offers unique insight into what life condition

Author Biography

Sharon Wilcox is the Associate Director for the Center for Culture, History, and Environment in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research explores the ways in which conceptions of place and value are constructed for terrestrial mammalian predator species in historical and contemporary contexts. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph, Jaguars of Empire: Natural History in the New World.

Stephanie Rutherford is an Associate Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University in Canada. Her research inhabits the intersections among the environmental humanities, animal geography, and posthumanism. She is currently writing a book on the history of wolves in Canada. She is also the author of Governing the Wild: Ecotours of Power and co-editor (with Jocelyn Thorpe and L. Anders Sandberg) of Methodological Challenges in Nature-Culture and Environmental History Research (Routledge, 2016).