|
Animated Cities: Urban Historical Insights into Human-Animal Interaction
Editor: Peter J. Atkins
Date Of Publication: Sep 2011
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3180-2
Isbn: 1-4438-3180-8
The idea for this book was first discussed at the 8th International Conference on Urban History organised by the European Urban History Association in Stockholm in 2006. Three of the chapters started as papers there in a session entitled ‘Animals in the City’ and five others are by participants. Animated Cities is a book that builds upon a recent surge of interest among historians about animals in the urban context. It follows a four-fold agenda. First, the opening chapters look at working and productive animals that lived and died in nineteenth-century cities such as London, Edinburgh and Paris. The purpose overall is to argue that their presence yields insights into evolving contemporary understandings of the category “urban” and what made a good city. A discussion of the recycling of animal manure and body parts forms one context for this, with commentaries about the purification of the urban environment and the problems associated with diseased meat. Second, there is a consideration of nineteenth-century animal spectacles, which influenced contemporary interpretations of the urban experience, using London Zoo as an example. Third, the theme of contested animal spaces in the city is explored further with regard to back-yard chickens in suburban Australia in the period 1890-1990. In one Melbourne suburb in the late nineteenth century as many as two-thirds of households kept these ‘chooks’ but later this proportion fell steadily under the pressure of regulation and social change. Finally, there is a chapter on dog-walking in Victorian and Edwardian London. This throws light of the problem of the public companion animal and its role in changing attitudes to public space. Animated Cities makes an important contribution to animal studies. It will be of interest to urban historians, historical geographers, social and economic historians, cultural historians, and historians of policy and planning. The considerability of animals in urban settings is now firmly established and here were have a number of valuable case studies that illustrate some of the perspectives that may be adopted.
Peter Atkins is a Professorial Fellow in Geography, Durham University. His research is devoted to the historical geography of food systems, particularly with regard to livestock products and zoonotic diseases. His most recent book (2010) is Liquid Materialities: a History of Milk, Science and the Law Farnham: Ashgate.
Price Uk Gbp: 44.99
Price Us Usd: 67.99
|
|
|
|
|
From Navigating Music and Sound Education
“We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence-based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought-provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!”
—Professor Graham F. Welch, University of London; President, International Society of Music Education
“Navigating music and sound education draws together a range of issues increasingly acknowledged to be at the basis of reflective and effective music learning and teaching: social settings, cultural dimensions, gender, indigeneity, varying cognitive approaches, inter-disciplinary connections, technology, types of learning, and creativity. It opens up areas of pedagogy that go beyond classroom methodology to acknowledge student individuality and encourage music learning and teaching grounded in the reality of students’ musical and social lives. It will be invaluable for those training to become educators and for teachers already in the field.”
—Associate Professor Peter Dunbar-Hall, University of Sydney
“This book brings an important contribution to music teacher education as it challenges the readers to rethink their paradigms of music education. It highlights the importance of preparing a reflective teacher, autonomous, creative and conscious of the multifaceted and multicultural locus in which they will work. The book also draws on the importance for music teachers to consider the context in which they work, and establish a dialog between local musical traditions, informal music practices and global trends of music teaching and learning. Most importantly, all chapters are in one way or another derived from research carried out on specific areas, thus stressing the importance of the research informed practice in music education.”
—Professor Liane Hentschke, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; International Society of Music Education Immediate Past President
Many readers will appreciate Steve Dillon and Kathy Hirche’s description of the future of education in their work with dynamic technological contexts.
Navigating Music and Sound Education is a wonderful guide and resource for pre-service music teachers, for teachers in the field, and for teacher educators.
It offers a range of fresh perspectives on the state of music education as it is and as it might be. Kari K Veblen
Navigating Music and Sound Education is an ambitious project which features current research from 20 individuals whose professional identities run the gamut from musician to songwriter to student to educator to music therapist to ethnomusicologist. The book’s scope is perhaps the most exciting aspect of Navigating Music and Sound Education.
Kari K Veblen
University of Western Ontario
British Journal of Music Education
October 2011
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
