Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia

ISBN-13: 9781032079219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

Opis

This book examines the theme of human-animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene.

Spis treści

List of Figures

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Human–Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia: Culture, Development, and the Politics

VICTOR TEO

2 “Rearing the Rare”: History, Coexistence, and Contestation of Wildlife Conservation in the Singalila National Park, Darjeeling, India

SANGAY TAMANG

3 A Mongolian Muzzle in the Chinese Grasslands: The Shifting Uses of the Camel in Nomadic Pastoralism and Festivities

AURORE DUMONT

4 Reindeer, Taiga, Ethnic Culture: State-Forced Resettlement and the Changing Human–Animal Interactions in the Aoluguya Ewenki Community

HANG LIN

5 Yak Dzongs in Sikkim Himalayas: Spaces of Conflict in the Making

BHIM SUBBA

6 Turtles amid Healing and Extinction: International Relations and Question of Animal Agency in the South China Sea Disputes

CARMINA YU UNTALAN

7 From Colonial Science to the Genome Age: The Politics of Asian Giant Salamander Conservation

LISA YOSHIKAWA

8 The Destiny of China’s Honeybees in the Anthropocene

KEOKAM KRAISORAPHONG

9 Human–Animal Interface and Sociocultural Ecology of Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks in Anthropocene China

SUNGWON YOON

10 Tiger Parks in Anthropocene China: Culture, Capitalism, and the Limits of Conservation

VICTOR TEO

Index

O autorze

Victor Teo is a political scientist specializing in the International Relations of the Indo-Pacific. He was most recently The Cold War Visiting Research Fellow at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK; and Wang Gungwu Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.