Dog
This note is about dogs.
History of Dogs
Pearson, Chris. “Stray Dogs and the Making of Modern Paris.” Past & Present 234, no. 1 (2017): 137–72. https://doi.org/10/gk3z28.
Agency of dogs. Bite, smell used for human purposes. Dogs as machines? As muscle power, as engines producing energy and doing work.
Podcast: "Canine City: Dogs and Humans in Urban History"
Ethics
This is a note on the #ethics (Private) of pets, and more specifically dogs.
Should we stop keeping pets? Why more and more ethicists say yes
Pets: is it ethical to keep them?
Are Pets As Happy As Their Owners Think They Are?
Dogs and Cultural, Urban, Environmental History
In the City
On the relationship between the dog and the city:
Pearson, Chris. Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2021.
Chez, Keridiana. Victorian Dogs, Victorian Men: Affect and Animals in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Dogs mentioned but also about other animals:
Brown, Frederick L. City Is More Than Human: Animal History of Seattle. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.
Grandin, Temple, and Catherine Johnson. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
Dog Cultures
On the cultures and lifestyles of wild dogs:
Rogers, Lesley J., and Gisela T. Kaplan. Spirit of the Wild Dog: The World of Wolves, Coyotes, Foxes, Jackals & Dingoes. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2003.
Dingo
On dingoes and dogs in Australia:
Hull, Guy. The Dogs That Made Australia. Sydney: Harper Collins, 2018.
On the cultural significance and management of dingoes in Australia:
Rose, Deborah Bird. Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Rose, Deborah Bird. Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Smith, Bradley. ‘Friends, Foes, Food and Ferals: Dingo Relationships in Australia’. Wildlife Australia 46, no. 3 (2009): 14–19.
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.
Pierce, Jessica, and Marc Bekoff. A Dog’s World: Imagining the Lives of Dogs in a World Without Humans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
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