Journal article
Why Not the City? Urban Hawk Watching and the End of Nature
Nature and culture, v 12(2), pp 115-136
01 Jun 2017
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
This multispecies ethnography of red-tailed hawks and of the humans who observed and cared for them investigates everyday engagement with nature and culture in an urban setting. The proliferation of anthropogenic biomes and their attendant human-animal relations is one of the defining social-ecological features of our day. This transformation has caused many ecological disasters but has also created some opportunities, including for thinking more imaginatively about what it means to protect urban nature. Through their activities, interactions, and travels the hawks questioned where belongings are drawn, prompting humans to debate how the city does, can, and should include other animals. And by monitoring the hawks' activities, the hawk watchers learned to imagine how things might be different if people acted as if the hawks had chosen to live in the city for reasons that made sense to them, if not necessarily to humans.
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- Title
- Why Not the City? Urban Hawk Watching and the End of Nature
- Creators
- Christian Hunold - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Nature and culture, v 12(2), pp 115-136
- Publisher
- Berghahn Journals
- Number of pages
- 22
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000409121700002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85019701313
- Other Identifier
- 991019168060604721
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