How to love a rat : detecting bombs in postwar Cambodia / Darcie DeAngelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeAngelo, Darcie, 1983- author.

Series:

Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 17.

Atelier: ethnographic inquiry in the twenty-first century ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land mines--Detection--Social aspects--Cambodia--21st century.

Land mines.

Physical Description:

xv, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

"How to Love a Rat takes place in a Cambodian minefield. Working amid hidden bombs, former war combatants use explosive-sniffing rats to clear mines from the land. In total, an estimated four to six million landmines in Cambodia have been left behind by wars that ended decades ago. This has created the conditions for a flourishing mine-clearance industry, where workers who were once enemy combatants may now be employed on the same clearance teams. Zeroing in on two distinct sets of feelings, Darcie DeAngelo paints a portrait of the love experienced between humans and rats and the suspicions felt between former adversaries turned coworkers. In doing so, she points to how human-animal relationships in the minefield produce models for relationality among people from opposing sides of war. The ways the deminers love the rats mediate both the traumatic violence of the past and the uncertain dangers of the minefield. The book's stories depict an transformative postwar ecology emerging through human-nonhuman relationships, including those shared between humans and rats, landmines, and spirits"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

New choreographies

Shadow stories

Even the clouds lie

A murder

Metta means "I'm sorry, you're sorry"

Smell (like) a rat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: DeAngelo, Darcie, 1983- How to love a rat

ISBN:

9780520397408

0520397401

9780520397422

0520397428

OCLC:

1428778303

Publisher Number:

90100102304