Panda politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8104212 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary‐claire Collard (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-232 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cag.12010 |
| OpenAlex | W2313737110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article argues that China's agreement in 2012 to loan Canada two panda bears is emblematic of animals’ simultaneous material‐symbolic inclusion and exclusion in contemporary politics. Employing a material focus, this article draws a connection between the panda gift and the promise to which it is attached: a promise of material flows; of Chinese access to Canadian resources, especially; and controversially, tar sands oil. Common to geographical flows of both pandas and oil is a devaluation of nonhuman life. In one flow, two pandas cross the Pacific for a decade of captivity at the Toronto and Calgary Zoos, where visitors will pay to view the permanently visible pandas. In the other instance, oil will be shipped across the same ocean, oil whose production comes at great cost to wildlife, including caribou, birds, and fish, and whose spill at any point along its journey to China would devastate marine and terrestrial wildlife populations. Stark power imbalances between species are at the heart of both of these flows and their material consequences. This article argues that, in emphasizing what the pandas symbolize, the extent to which their own and others’ lives are materially affected is elided
Archaeology · China · Geography · Political science · Politics · Wildlife · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology · Law
Animating capital
Wild bears, real bears and zoo bears
Panda diplomacy revisited
The understated turn
The Radical Edge of More-Than-Human Political Ecology
Go Panda Go
Nonhuman labour, encounter value, spectacular accumulation
Affective economies, pandas, and the atmospheric politics of lively capital
Materialising reform
Extinctionscapes
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |