Trans-Species Urban Politics
Stories From a Beach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8095044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tora Holmberg (0000-0003-0845-1116, Uppsala University, Gävle, Sweden, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-42 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Space and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-3312 • E-ISSN: 1552-8308 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1206331212452365 |
| OpenAlex | W2110152039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 19 |
The article investigates the emergence and continuation of a spatial conflict, concerning a “dog beach” in Santa Cruz, California, that led to the creation of local interest organizations and came to involve city and state authorities and regulations, local news and social media, and not least, park visitors (both humans and dogs). Through the debate, positions for and against dogs being off leash were consolidated—however, not necessarily positions for and against dogs. Several themes emerge through the analysis: safety/risk, disturbance, excrements, and “dogginess,” meaning the perceived nature of dogs. The case study is used as an example of not only how urban politics affects the bodies, practices, and movement of people and dogs but also, similarly, how this politics is constantly under the threat of civil disobedience and subversive acts of counterpolitics. It illustrates the dialectics of everyday lives—of the bodies, practices, and movement of people and dogs—and space: the liminal case of the beach. Furthermore, the collective movement of dogs and people is conceptualized as a trans-species urban crowd, threatening a certain ideal public order
Civil disobedience · Criminology · Dialectic · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Liminality · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Public space · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art
Who or what is ‘the public’ in critical public health? Reflections on posthumanism and anthropological engagements with One Health
Public engagement and community participation in governing urban parks
Natural waste
Sensuous Governance
Changing Conceptions of Care
Dog-walking, dog-fouling and leashing policies in urban parks
Animals and urban gentrification
Discipline and puppies
Dog eat dog world
From more-than-human solidarity to multi-species biographical value
Moral Panic over Fake Service Animals
Othering, governing, and resistance of abject urban animals
"A walk with "that wild dog of yours
The Embryo Research Debate
Badlands of the Republic
Subculture
Public Space and the Culture of Childhood
Contestation and Conformity
The Disintegration of a Socialist Exemplar
A Weird Politics of Place
Pets
Purity and Danger
Animals and Modern Cultures
We Have Never Been Modern
Flesh and stone
To Turn
At the Wall
Anima urbis
Animal behaviours, post-human lives
On the edge
The Established and the Outsiders
Zones of indistinction
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |