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From zoogeography to animal geography: the spatial commodification of animals

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  • 1998
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  • The California Geographer 38: 1-22
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  • Zoogeography developed as a Newtonian/Cartesian science in the early nineteenth century as descriptive classification. After Darwin it evolved into biogeography, an explanatory, then predictive science, often aligned with and even indistinguishable from ecology. As a science, biogeography remains objective and remote from human interaction, using animals to forward anthropocentric concerns. Applied biogeography; led by ecologists, has studied distribution patterns altered by urban encroachment. Human/animal relations have been a concern for twentieth-century cultural geography, reflected in historical studies of domestication and in musings about current human/ animal relations. The geography of domestic animals seldom considers animals other than as economic units or commodities. A subjective, humanistic and, at times, biocentric animal geography has been influential in widening the scope for some, but animal geography remains a science. It has been unable to wrench from of a purely analytic approach in favor of holism. An emerging animal geography furthers social theoretical concerns with little in common to zoogeographies other than still using animals as a commodity. It therefore remains within the Newtonian/Cartesian method of science rather than addressing the more holistic concerns of a complexity paradigm.
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