Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who a wea humans think a wea are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoplesa everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly...

Human-animal co-existence is central to a politics of life, how we order societies, and to debates about who we humans think we are. In other words, our ways of understanding and ordering human-animal relations have economic and political implications and affect peoples everyday lives. By bringing together historically-oriented approaches and contemporary ethnographies which engage with science and technology studies (STS), this book reflects the multi-sited, multi-species, multi-logic and multiple ways in which lives are and have been assembled, disassembled, practised and possibly policed...