Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series
About the Book Series
In Memory of Professor Henry Buller, founding series editor.
The last fifteen years or so have seen an extraordinary growth in new and original social science research into human-animal relations. The ‘animal turn’ as some have referred to it is driven by a strong sense that though essential partners in human worlds, animals have long been ignored by a predominantly humanist social science. Although there is a growing literature on human-animal studies, particularly within the humanities but increasingly including geography, sociology, anthropology, the crucial interdisciplinary cross-overs that have so animated animal studies research have not been easily served in the publication strategies of either major journals or book publishers.
The new Routledge Human-Animal Studies Series offers a much-needed forum for original, innovative and cutting edge research and analysis to explore human animal relations across the social sciences and humanities. Titles within the series are empirically and/or theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic, captivating and highly relevant topics, drawing across the humanities and social sciences in an avowedly interdisciplinary perspective. This series will encourage new theoretical perspectives and highlight ground-breaking research that reflects the dynamism and vibrancy of current animal studies. The series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, researchers and research students as well as academics and policy-makers across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines.
To submit a proposal for the series please contact Faye Leerink ([email protected])
Horses, Power and Place: A More-Than-Human Geography of Equine Britain
1st Edition
By Neil Ward
May 06, 2025
Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity’s relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset, and an animal of sport and leisure. Taking an historical approach, and using Britain ...
Heterotopia, Radical Imagination, and Shattering Orders: Manifesting a Future of Liberated Animals
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Arcari
December 13, 2024
This volume takes ending the oppression of other animals seriously and confronts the question ‘What would happen to all the animals?’ by showcasing real, promissory, and imagined counter-sites or heterotopia, where animals ‘happen’ in different ways, free of anthropocentric orders of value and ...
Methods in Human-Animal Studies: Engaging With Animals Through the Social Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Annalisa Colombino, Heide K. Bruckner
November 28, 2024
This timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorise research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the anthropomorphic slant to human-animal research and the increasing political relevance of animals in contemporary environmental debates, this book ...
What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals: The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship
1st Edition
By Gary Steiner
September 27, 2023
This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition’s assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It makes a case for the full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals. The book provides the basis for a radical critique of the entire trajectory of animal studies over ...
Winged Worlds: Common Spaces of Avian-Human Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Olga Petri, Michael Guida
June 26, 2023
This edited collection explores our often-surprising modes of co-inhabiting the cultural and aerial worlds of birds. It focuses on our encounters with non-captive birds and the cultural geographies of feathered flight. This book offers a timely contribution to the more-than-human geographies of ...
The Imaginary of Animals
1st Edition
By Annabelle Dufourcq
May 31, 2023
This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real cognitive capacities of animals. The book ...
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals
1st Edition
By Karen M. Morin
February 25, 2020
Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals explores resonances across human and nonhuman carceral geographies. The work proposes an analysis of the carceral from a broader vantage point than has yet been done, developing a ‘trans-species carceral geography’ that includes spaces of nonhuman captivity, ...
Shared Lives of Humans and Animals: Animal Agency in the Global North
1st Edition
Edited
By Tuomas Räsänen, Taina Syrjämaa
January 17, 2019
Animals are conscious beings that form their own perspective regarding the lifeworlds in which they exist, and according to which they act in relation to their species and other animals. In recent decades a thorough transformation in societal research has taken place, as many groups that were ...
Animal Housing and Human–Animal Relations: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristian Bjørkdahl, Tone Druglitrø
February 06, 2018
This book provides an in-depth investigation into the practices of animal housing systems with international contributions from across the humanities and social sciences. By attending to a range of different sites such as the zoo, the laboratory, the farm and the animal shelter, to name a few, the ...
Affect, Space and Animals
1st Edition
Edited
By Jopi Nyman, Nora Schuurman
June 16, 2017
In recent years, animals have entered the focus of the social and cultural sciences, resulting in the emergence of the new field of human–animal studies. This book investigates the relationships between humans and animals, paying particular attention to the role of affect, space, and animal ...
Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Gillespie, Rosemary-Claire Collard
February 24, 2017
Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounters. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary ...
Urban Animals: Crowding in zoocities
1st Edition
By Tora Holmberg
February 02, 2017
The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subjected to complaints; they transgress geographical, legal, and cultural ordering systems, while roaming the city in what are often perceived as uncontrolled ways. But they are also ...