Globalizing Wildlife.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Bont, Raf.

Series:

Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2026.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Globalizing Wildlife, Wilding the Global

Part I: Following Trajectories

Chapter One. The Global Passages of the Grey Parrot

Chapter Two. Globalizing Endangered Species: The Przewalski's Horse ]Between Zoo and Steppe

Chapter Three. Caring for Chimps as Viral Kin

Part II: Mapping Interconnections and Infrastructures

Chapter Four. Nature's GPS: Animal Navigation Research Between Biology and Engineering in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Chapter Five. Storying the Sly Mongoose: From Ratter to Cautionary Tale

Chapter Six. Brown Bear Diplomacy During the Cold War

Chapter Seven. Rats, Islands, and Global Infrastructure

Part III: Situating Animals in Global Sites

Chapter Eight. Cosmopolitan Animals, Rooted Exhibits: Global Entanglements at Antwerp Zoo

Chapter Nine. Wild Animals in the Globalized and Fragmented São Paulo Metropolis

Chapter Ten. Fungibility on the Logistical Coast: Coaxing and Containing the California Sea Otter

Chapter Eleven. Rogue Weed and Royal Feline: A "Landscape of Ruin" in South India

Epilogue. Historical Perspectives on the Globalization of Wildlife

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4696-9476-X

1-4696-8887-5

OCLC:

1587899490