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Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence

Landfill Dogs

Shannon Johnstone

Mar 24, 2016
5 min

Landfill Dogs

A photo essay about homeless dogs and their discarded brethren at a landfill in Wake County, North Carolina. In 2009, Wake County’s former director of environmental services contacted me about an old landfill site that was being turned into a public park and suggested it would be an excellent backdrop to photograph the animals. I had been doing this as a volunteer at the animal shelter for several years. We went there together and he showed me around. He was looking for uniqu

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Outrage, Geography, and Cecil the Lion

Mar 22, 2016
6 min

Outrage, Geography, and Cecil the Lion

An American trophy hunter, a British conservation group, and a Zimbabwean lion. It might be mistaken as the opening of clever joke, but this story is anything but. In 2015, American dentist Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to travel nearly 9,000 miles to kill a lion via what is alleged to be illegal means (by baiting the lion of out of the park and shooting it on private land with no lion hunting permits). The lion turned out to be Cecil – a popular resident of Hwange National P

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Kansas City: An American Zoopolis

Mar 22, 2016
2 min

Kansas City: An American Zoopolis

This film tells the story of how animals have helped shape Kansas City. From the fur trade days to the cowtown boom to the pet and animal sciences industries today, animals have always been part of the city's economic, political, and cultural life. As a cultural geographer I study the ways in which we engage with, and experience, the world around us. My particular area of focus is human-animal relationships and how we create these relationships in places and across space and

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Forthcoming Encyclopedia by Coordinates Staff Members

coordinatessociety

Mar 21, 2016
2 min

Forthcoming Encyclopedia by Coordinates Staff Members

We are pleased to announce that the first-ever one volume encyclopedia about human-animal relations for a general audience will be published in October of 2016 by ABC-CLIO Press. It is co-edited by staff members Julie Urbanik and Connie L. Johnston. An engaging and at times sobering look at the coexistence of humans and animals in the 21st century and how their sometimes disparate needs affect environments, politics, economies, and culture worldwide. There is an urgent need

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Your Animal Map?

coordinatessociety

Mar 21, 2016
4 min

Your Animal Map?

This activity is designed to help you develop your understanding of your own animal geography. It may be interesting to do this activity with others to compare experiences as it will help deepen your understanding of what is meant by the geography of human-animal relations. You will need a journal or paper and writing tools (some enjoy using colored pencils or markers). Why is it even important to consider animals? To recognize that we are animals. Our society often separa

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