Reposted by Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM
Great to see this piece out! Drawing on her PhD research, Yihan Yan shows how media discourses shape views of dog ownership in Chinese cities + how it becomes a problem to be managed. Really interesting work on more-than-human geographies & the right to the city! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Problematizing pet dogs: media discourse, nonhuman governmentality and everyday multispecies coexistence in Hangzhou, China
Pet dogs have become key sites of urban conflict as cities seek to regulate more-than-human life, yet we know little about how media in China problematize them and how these framings are lived and ...