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])
The Fire Commons: Cultural Burning as Multispecies Practice
1st Edition
By Marcus Baynes-Rock
June 05, 2026
This book explores the multispecies dimensions of First Nations burning practices and shows how these integrate with Aboriginal ontologies to resist the ideological and structural violence of colonisation. Under the shadow of climate driven catastrophes, cultural burning is undergoing a resurgence ...
Performance and Human–Animal Entanglements
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Wieczorkiewicz, Sylwia Siedlecka
February 12, 2026
The volume explores how nonhuman animal lives are entangled with human interests, conflicts, and desires, highlighting the role of performance in these interactions. Drawing on diverse case studies, it unfolds across four thematic sections: Training Animals, Show Machines, Artistic Experiments, and...
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 ...
Immanence and the Animal: A Conceptual Inquiry
1st Edition
By Krzysztof Skonieczny
December 13, 2021
This book reexamines the concept of the animal on the plane of immanence, as opposed to the traditional viewpoint founded on the plane of transcendence.Following Deleuze and Guattari’s notion that philosophy is a discipline of creating concepts, this book traces how the concept of the animal was ...
Horse Breeds and Human Society: Purity, Identity and the Making of the Modern Horse
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristen Guest, Monica Mattfeld
June 30, 2021
This book demonstrates how horse breeding is entwined with human societies and identities. It explores issues of lineage, purity, and status by exploring interconnections between animals and humans.The quest for purity in equine breed reflects and evolves alongside human subjectivity shaped by ...
Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters
1st Edition
By Claire Parkinson
March 31, 2021
This book critically investigates the pervasiveness of anthropomorphised animals in popular culture.Anthropomorphism in popular visual media has long been denounced for being unsophisticated or emotionally manipulative. It is often criticised for over-expressing similarities between humans and ...
Historical Animal Geographies
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Wilcox, Stephanie Rutherford
August 14, 2020
Arguing that historical analysis is an important, yet heretofore largely underexplored dimension of scholarship in animal geographies, this book seeks to define historical animal geography as the exploration of how spatially situated human–animal relations have changed through time. This volume ...