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Animal Traffic

Autor Rosemary-Claire Collard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2020
Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos. In Animal Traffic Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital. Tracking the capture of animals in biosphere reserves in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize; their exchange at exotic animal auctions in the United States; and the attempted rehabilitation of former exotic pets at a wildlife center in Guatemala, Collard shows how exotic pets are fetishized both as commodities and as objects. Their capture and sale sever their ties to complex socio-ecological networks in ways that make them appear as if they do not have lives of their own. Collard demonstrates that the enclosure of animals in the exotic pet trade is part of a bio-economic trend in which life is increasingly commodified and objectified under capitalism. Ultimately, she calls for a "wild life" politics in which animals are no longer enclosed, retain their autonomy, and can live for the sake of themselves.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478010920
ISBN-10: 1478010924
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 22 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

A Note on the Cover Art
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. An Act of Severing
2. Noah's Ark on the Auction Block
3. Crafting the Unencounterable Animal
4. Wild Life Politics
Notes
References
Index

Descriere

Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.