’Urban Animals – Shifting Ecologies of Proximities

00. Brighenti & Pavoni 2020 Situating Urban Animals
	Abstract
	Where urbanisation and animals meet
	Six desiderata in the study of urban animals
	Overview of the contributions to this special issue
	Notes
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributors
	ORCID
	References
01. Holmberg 2019 Animal waste work
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Urban waste work
	Trash tracing
	Making sludge
		Down the drain
		Feeding bacteria
		Depositing digestates
	Concluding discussion
	Note
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	ORCID
	References
02. Filipovic 2019 three bugs in the city
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Urban postsocialist infrastructure and the zoopolitical materialisation of mosquitoes
	Ladybirds, stink bugs, mosquitoes, and the zoopolitical/biopolitical technologies
	Conclusion
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	References
03. Houston 2019 Planning in the shadow of extinction
	Abstract
	Background context
	A challenge and a provocation
	Urban planning in the shadow of extinction
	Planning in/with ethical time
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	References
04. Nguyen 2019 Bird play
	Abstract
	1. Companionship and urban animals: the pet that is no pet
	2. Birds of a feather: when bulbuls go urban
	3. Bird cafés  the politics of play
	4. Reinventing urban ‘nature’
	Notes
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	References
	Appendix I: Bulbul-Keeping Terminology
05. Johnston 2019 Incongruous killing
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Situating biopolitical techniques, vulnerability, and nonhuman resistance
		Killability, and biopolitical techniques of making live
		Nonhuman resistance, and biopolitical techniques of making die
		Vulnerability as resistance after being counted as a statistic
	Novel vulnerabilities, and life after being counted
		Pets in contested spaces
		Visible death: legal requirement for animal shelter reporting
		Novel vulnerabilities
	Incongruous laws pertaining to death-making techniques
		Animal sheltering laws: dying in public custody
		Unwanted wildlife laws: when living in public means dying in private
	Discussion: confronting incongruous killing
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	ORCID
	References
06. Rink & Crow 2019 Horse:power
	Abstract
	Introduction
		Mobility, humanimals and their relational geographies
			Mobility
			Non-human animal mobility and the working horse
			The informal waste economy
	Methods and study area
	Humanimal relationships: an urban cowboy and his sidekick
		Imi, the urban cowboy
		Farieda, draught power and trusted sidekick
		Humanimals in the city: mediation and power
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributors
	ORCID
	References
07. Braverman 2019 Corals in the city cultivating ocean life in the Anthropocene
	Abstract
	Ocean and city in the Anthropocene: an introduction
	Urban corals in the New Atlantis
	Coral tanks in the city: who are the aquarium corals?
	Growing corals in the city: a brief history
	The regulation of city corals
	Thinking with city corals
	Conclusion: toward coral cities
	Notes
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	References
08. Gisler 2019 Urban topologies of epistemic change
	Abstract
	Introduction1
	1. Heterotopia of the zoo, illusion of the map
	2. Zoo maps and their changing cultural meaning
	3. The zoo as a heterotopia of shared space
	4. Conclusions
	Notes
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributor
	ORCID
	Literature
09. Alexander & Draper 2019 The rules we make that coyotes break
	Abstract
	Coyotes among us
	Understanding co-existence in an urbanising landscape
	Coyote constructs
	The rules coyotes break
	Killing coyotes that break rules
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Disclosure statement
	Notes on contributors
	References