Cosmopolitan Animals

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-13
A Time after Copernicus....Pages 14-28
The Cynic as Cosmopolitan Animal....Pages 29-42
‘Only a Spectacle’: Frogs, Cosmopolitics and the Ecological Crisis....Pages 43-57
Animal Religion and Cosmonautical Allegories....Pages 58-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-78
Deathtraps in the Flyways: Electricity, Glass and Bird Collisions in Urban North America, 1887–2014....Pages 79-92
The Bullfight in Twenty-First-Century Spain: Polemics of Culture, Art and Ethics....Pages 93-106
Hospitable Animals....Pages 107-119
Gandhi’s Animal Experiments....Pages 120-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-137
Becoming Wormy, Becoming Worldly: Parasitic Nematodes as Companion Species....Pages 138-151
Baboon Cosmopolitanism: More-Than-Human Moralities in a Multispecies Community....Pages 152-166
From the Field to the Frontier: Hounds, Hunting and the Canine-Human Alliance....Pages 167-180
Horse-Human Companionship: Creaturely Cosmopolitanism across Eurasia....Pages 181-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-200
Iguanas and Enemy Combatants: Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism through Guantánamo’s Creaturely Lives....Pages 201-215
Violent Encounters: ‘Stray’ Dogs in Indian Cities....Pages 216-232
The Beast in the Chinese Boxes: The Jungle Books as an Imperial Beast-Fable....Pages 233-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-253