Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships [Hardcover]

Human and animal lives intersect, whether through direct physical contact or by inhabiting the same space at a different time. Environmental humanities scholars have begun investigating these relationships through the emerging field of multispecies studies, building on decades of work in animal history, feminist studies, and Indigenous epistemologies. Contributors to this volume consider the entangled human-animal relationships of a complex multispecies world, where domesticated animals, wild animals, and people cross paths, creating hybrid naturecultures. Technology, they argue, structures how animals and humans share spaces. From clothing to cars to computers, technology acts as a mediator and connector of lives across time and space. It facilitates ways of looking at, measuring, moving, and killing, as well as controlling, containing, conserving, and cooperating with animals.Sharing Spaceschallenges us to analyze how technology shapes human relationships with the nonhuman world, exploring nonhuman animals as kin, companions, food, transgressors, entertainment, and tools.  A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections series “How are our relationships with animals mediated by technology and what are the ethical and moral implications of those entanglements? Through case studies that range across species, spaces, and times, this critically important collection explores how technologies—whether tracking devices, cameras, or monitoring tools—both connect and alienate us from animals, creating opportunities for both greater understanding and exploitation.”
 
—Tina Loo, University of British Columbia
 “This rich collection chronicles some of the ways technologies shape human relationships with animals. While some of these relationships are exploitative, here also are chronicled relations of care and symbiotic partnerships. The case studies are fascinating, the analysis colƒ<