Othering,governing, and resistance of abject urban animals: Egyptian geese and their right to the city |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Political Science, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria;2. Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria;3. Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa;1. East-West Center, Hawai''i, United States;2. The University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Australia;1. McGill University, Canada;2. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we examine the controversy over the use of urban green spaces and water bodies by Egyptian geese in the German city of Frankfurt am Main as an example of more-than-human political conflicts over the right to an environmentally just city. Specifically, we analyze the media discourse and interviews that we conducted as multispecies go-alongs to identify how othering in media and policy constitutes Egyptian geese legally and discursively as “alien, invasive, and aggressive” as well as “disgusting, polluting, and health-threatening.” This othering constructs Egyptian geese as abject animals and justifies their governing through “geese management” technologies, ranging from monitoring to atmospheric engineering and to killing the birds. While the management objective is to displace the Egyptian geese from urban spaces dedicated for human recreation, these spaces also turn out to be places of animal resistance. |
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Keywords: | Political animal geography Right to the city Environmental justice Politics of affect Atmospheres Abject animals Othering Animal resistance |
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