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UNINA9910788354103321 |
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Autore |
Song Hoon |
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Titolo |
Pigeon trouble : bestiary biopolitics in a deindustrialized America / / Hoon Song |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-8122-2270-9 |
1-283-89103-4 |
0-8122-0009-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Animal rights activists - Pennsylvania |
Pigeon shooting - Moral and ethical aspects - Pennsylvania |
Pigeon shooting - Political aspects - Pennsylvania |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Cruelty through Glassy Eyes -- Chapter Two. Gloved Love -- Chapter Three. Hooliganism -- Chapter Four. Pests and Outcasts -- Chapter Five. Mimesis and Conspiracy Theory -- Chapter Six. Representationalism's Animal Other -- Chapter Seven. The Line of Flight, Out of Bird Phobia -- Conclusion. Self-Reflexivity and Finite Thinking -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born, birdphobic anthropologist's venture into the occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Though initially drawn by a widely publicized antipigeon shoot protest by animal rights activists, the author quickly finds himself traversing into a territory much stranger than clashing worldviews-an uncanny world saturated with pigeon matters, both figuratively and literally. What transpires is a sustained meditation on self-reflexivity as the author teeters at the limit of his investigation-his own fear of birds. The result is an intimate portrayal of the miners' world of conspiracy theory, anti-Semitism, and whiteness, all inscribed one way or another by pigeon matters, and seen through the anguished eyes of a birdphobe. This bestiary |
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