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Animal geography is a subfield of the nature–society/human–environment branch of geography as well as a part of the larger, interdisciplinary umbrella of human–animal studies (HAS). Animal geography is defined as the study of "the complex entanglings of human–animal relations with space, place, location, environment and landscape"[1] or "the study of where, when, why and how nonhuman animals intersect with human societies".[2] Recent work advances these perspectives to argue about an ecology of relations in which humans and animals are enmeshed, taking seriously the lived spaces of animals themselves and their sentient interactions with not just human but other nonhuman bodies as well.[3]
The Animal Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers was founded in 2009 by Monica Ogra and Julie Urbanik, and the Animal Geography Research Network was founded in 2011 by Daniel Allen.[citation needed]
- ^ Philo, C., Wilbert, C., 2000. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places: New Geographies of Human–Animal Relations. Routledge, London and New York, p. 4.
- ^ Urbanik, J. 2012. Placing Animals: An Introduction to the Geography of Human–Animal Relations. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, p. 38.
- ^ Barua, M. (2013). "Volatile ecologies: towards a material politics of human–animal relations". Environment and Planning A. 46 (6): 1462–1478. doi:10.1068/a46138. S2CID 144550925. Retrieved 21 December 2013.