’Urban Animals – Shifting Ecologies of Proximities

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00. Brighenti & Pavoni 2020 Situating Urban Animals Abstract Where urbanisation and animals meet Six desiderata in the study of urban animals Overview of the contributions to this special issue Notes Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributors ORCID References 01. Holmberg 2019 Animal waste work Abstract Introduction Urban waste work Trash tracing Making sludge Down the drain Feeding bacteria Depositing digestates Concluding discussion Note Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributor ORCID References 02. Filipovic 2019 three bugs in the city Abstract Introduction Urban postsocialist infrastructure and the zoopolitical materialisation of mosquitoes Ladybirds, stink bugs, mosquitoes, and the zoopolitical/biopolitical technologies Conclusion Disclosure statement Notes on contributor References 03. Houston 2019 Planning in the shadow of extinction Abstract Background context A challenge and a provocation Urban planning in the shadow of extinction Planning in/with ethical time Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributor References 04. Nguyen 2019 Bird play Abstract 1. Companionship and urban animals: the pet that is no pet 2. Birds of a feather: when bulbuls go urban 3. Bird cafés the politics of play 4. Reinventing urban ‘nature’ Notes Disclosure statement Notes on contributor References Appendix I: Bulbul-Keeping Terminology 05. Johnston 2019 Incongruous killing Abstract Introduction Situating biopolitical techniques, vulnerability, and nonhuman resistance Killability, and biopolitical techniques of making live Nonhuman resistance, and biopolitical techniques of making die Vulnerability as resistance after being counted as a statistic Novel vulnerabilities, and life after being counted Pets in contested spaces Visible death: legal requirement for animal shelter reporting Novel vulnerabilities Incongruous laws pertaining to death-making techniques Animal sheltering laws: dying in public custody Unwanted wildlife laws: when living in public means dying in private Discussion: confronting incongruous killing Conclusion Notes Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributor ORCID References 06. Rink & Crow 2019 Horse:power Abstract Introduction Mobility, humanimals and their relational geographies Mobility Non-human animal mobility and the working horse The informal waste economy Methods and study area Humanimal relationships: an urban cowboy and his sidekick Imi, the urban cowboy Farieda, draught power and trusted sidekick Humanimals in the city: mediation and power Conclusion Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributors ORCID References 07. Braverman 2019 Corals in the city cultivating ocean life in the Anthropocene Abstract Ocean and city in the Anthropocene: an introduction Urban corals in the New Atlantis Coral tanks in the city: who are the aquarium corals? Growing corals in the city: a brief history The regulation of city corals Thinking with city corals Conclusion: toward coral cities Notes Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributor References 08. Gisler 2019 Urban topologies of epistemic change Abstract Introduction1 1. Heterotopia of the zoo, illusion of the map 2. Zoo maps and their changing cultural meaning 3. The zoo as a heterotopia of shared space 4. Conclusions Notes Disclosure statement Notes on contributor ORCID Literature 09. Alexander & Draper 2019 The rules we make that coyotes break Abstract Coyotes among us Understanding co-existence in an urbanising landscape Coyote constructs The rules coyotes break Killing coyotes that break rules Conclusion Acknowledgements Disclosure statement Notes on contributors References