Liska
This is a note that serves as the basis for a story about Лиска.
Refer to the note on the Dog for the overview on dogs.
Link to Culture and politics, consider Soviet and post-Soviet dogs. For example, the dog group that lived in St. Petersburg. Also, spontaneous grouping for hunting and killing stray dogs and for protecting them in Moscow.
- Interview my mother
Key Ideas
- More-than-human geography. The way to know the place in a more-than-human way.
- Model for more-than-human cohabitation. Freedom of movement, freedom of interaction, freedom of companionship, ownership and rights, etc.
- Design, boundaries, expectations.
- Interspecies culture.
Character, Traits, and Behaviour
- independence
- memory
- loyalty
- tenacity
- family on the hill
- beauty
- not feral and not a pet
- contrast with other neighbouring dogs, the one on the chain across the road, the one in the winter yard that jumped over and bit тетя Валя
Events and Stories
- forest walks
- hiding under the house
- running and baking at the other dogs
- owner
- coming back after winter
- forest
- joy at joining
- energy and silliness
- abandonment
- distances
- combing
- digging holes under the fence
- fear that it will be stolen
- pretending that it did not recognise us when meeting us far from home
- combing and dreadlocks
- barking at other dogs along the fence
- barking at the postman
- grooming
Portrait
Describe the portrait details
- Appearance
- Explanation of the name
Place
- what is a dacha?
- village
- station
- roads
- shops
- forest
- river
- dams and watering holes
- Neva
- dark water
- next station, banya, ice cream
References
Wallen, Martin. Whose Dog Are You? The Technology of Dog Breeds and the Aesthetics of Modern Human-Canine Relations. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017.
O’Connor, Terry. Animals as Neighbors: The Past and Present of Commensal Species. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013.
Lennox, Rowena. Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K’gari Dingoes. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2021.
Losey, Robert J., Robert P. Wishart, and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, eds. Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-Domestication. London: Routledge, 2018.
Lohmann, Roger Ivar, ed. Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures. New York: Routledge, 2026.
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