Species Cleansing

£46.49 £61.99

Species Cleansing

Name: Species Cleansing
Brand: Brill Deutschland GmbH
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The Cultural Practice of Rat Control

Written by Gabriela Jarzębowska

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The book scrutinizes post-war rat control programs in Poland, exploring their intricate intersections with politics, science, and ideology. It delves into the impact of prevailing cultural narratives concerning problematic urban rodents on pest control and sanitary programs, as well as the ways in which biological factors shape, challenge, or impede political modernization initiatives. Employing urban rat populations as an unequivocal exemplar of an undesirable element, the author constructs an inquiry into the strategies of political exclusion. The analysis of rat extermination schemes facilitates an exploration of the patterns of social progress within a semi-peripheral country and the discursive shifts evident in political language regarding the troublesome non-human urban residents.

Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, Poland. She works in the fields of critical animal studies and environmental humanities.

ISBN-13: 9783847117452
Publisher: V&R unipress
Imprint: Brill Deutschland GmbH
Publication date: 9 September 2024
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
Dimensions: 237 x 160 mm
Illustrations: with 22 figures
Language: English