Animal Nation

副标题: The True Story of Animals And Australia

ISBN: 9780868408903

出版社: UNSW Press

出版年: 2006-07-30

页数: 272

定价: USD 30.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Animal Nation traces the complex relationships between animals and humans in Australia. It starts with the colonial period, when unfamiliar native animals were hunted almost to extinction and replaced with preferred species, and comes full circle to the present, when native species are protected above all others. It demonstrates that different categories of animals have been used to legitimate or marginalize different human groups in colonial and postcolonial Australia.

Animals form the focus of intense social and political conflict in Australia. In a provocative and original way, Animal Nation explains why.