Alice Would
Biographic Data
| ID | 1689478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Would |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Would |
| SIGNATURE | WOULD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3707-2983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Misfits, Power, and History
In this article, we construct a critical history of "ability" by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals and the ways in which they have been understood over the course of modernity. Such creatures were frequently the subjects of assumptions and judgments about what they could and could not do. Dark places have historically been imagined as extreme environments and as home to equally strange beings. We argue that discourse re…
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking
In this article we track the relationship between transforming ways of engaging with animal Otherness in the context of Western scientific writing from the mid-eighteenth through to the early twenty-first century. Specifically, we engage with studies of dark-adapted sensoria. There are few species which seem to have presented such a challenge to the Western, post-enlightenment capacity to imagine Otherness, than those which dwell in darkness. Ind…
Tactile Taxidermy
Taxidermy specimens are cloaked in animal skin; organic material that can decay or be eaten by insects. This essay examines the tactile relationship between this changeable skin-creature, and the figures of the taxidermist and the natural history curator in the turn of the twentieth century museum. Using Bristol Museum as a case study, it argues that specimens were not inert or stilled within museum collections. It explores how taxidermy specimen…
Tactile Taxidermy
Taxidermy specimens are cloaked in animal skin; organic material that can decay or be eaten by insects. This essay examines the tactile relationship between this changeable skin-creature, and the figures of the taxidermist and the natural history curator in the turn of the twentieth century museum. Using Bristol Museum as a case study, it argues that specimens were not inert or stilled within museum collections. It explores how taxidermy specimen…
Tactile Taxidermy
Taxidermy specimens are cloaked in animal skin; organic material that can decay or be eaten by insects. This essay examines the tactile relationship between this changeable skin-creature, and the figures of the taxidermist and the natural history curator in the turn of the twentieth century museum. Using Bristol Museum as a case study, it argues that specimens were not inert or stilled within museum collections. It explores how taxidermy specimen…
Echo Worlds and Mole-Thinking
In this article we track the relationship between transforming ways of engaging with animal Otherness in the context of Western scientific writing from the mid-eighteenth through to the early twenty-first century. Specifically, we engage with studies of dark-adapted sensoria. There are few species which seem to have presented such a challenge to the Western, post-enlightenment capacity to imagine Otherness, than those which dwell in darkness. Ind…
Misfits, Power, and History
In this article, we construct a critical history of "ability" by focusing on the specific case study of dark-dwelling animals and the ways in which they have been understood over the course of modernity. Such creatures were frequently the subjects of assumptions and judgments about what they could and could not do. Dark places have historically been imagined as extreme environments and as home to equally strange beings. We argue that discourse re…
History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)