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Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange.
About the Author: Raf De Bont is professor of history at Maastricht University.
330 Pages
Nature, Ecosystems & Habitats
Series Name: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

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Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became the latest in a long line of forces affecting human-animal relations. Grey parrots traveled the world as pets; rats used global shipping infrastructure to spread to far-off islands and became the object of cross-border extermination campaigns; and California sea otters were relocated to accommodate global oil transportation needs. The language of globalization, however, is rarely used to understand the history of these creatures. Globalizing Wildlife shows how wild animals were not simply affected by globalization but shaped its concrete trajectories at local, national, and international scales.

The editors and contributors of this collection bring the more-than-human turn to globalization studies, foregrounding not only how globalization matters for wildlife but also how wildlife matters for and constitutes globalization. The volume presents a range of geographically- and species-diverse case studies spanning from the 1870s to the present day to show that globalizing wildlife is far from a homogenous process. Ultimately, contributors reconceptualize globalization and wildlife in relation to one another and foster new connections between the longstanding study of globalization and the dynamic, rapidly consolidating field of historical animal studies.
Contributors are Vincent Bijman, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Regina Horta Duarte, George Iordachescu, Nancy J. Jacobs, Ajit Menon, Gregg Mitman, Nitin D. Rai, Simone Schleper, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Monica Vasile, and James L. A. Webb Jr.

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"A fascinating introduction to an underexplored topic. From trafficked African grey parrots to zoo-bred Przewalski's horses, Globalizing Wildlife reveals how global processes impacted the lives of wild animals, and how animals complicated, frustrated, and resisted human designs."--Helen Louise Cowie, author of Animals in World History

"An essential and timely intervention that demonstrates how global processes have always been more-than-human events, and by centering animals, they offer exciting, cutting-edge vantages on crucial global histories."--Daniel Vandersommers, author of Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive

About the Author

Raf De Bont is professor of history at Maastricht University.
Vanessa Bateman is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow at Trent University.
Tom Quick is a Berlin-based independent scholar and historian of animals, science, and technology.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .74 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.03 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 330

Genre: Nature

Sub-Genre: Ecosystems & Habitats

Series Title: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Theme: General

Format: Paperback

Author: Raf de Bont & Vanessa Bateman & Tom Quick

Language: English

Street Date: May 26, 2026

TCIN: 1011299614

UPC: 9781469694757

Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-5414

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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