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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022683896X
ISBN-13
9780226838960
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20071625289
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Bad Nature : How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Subject
Animals / Mammals, Agriculture / General, Sociology / Social Theory, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2024-046663
Dewey Edition
23
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Some animals get documentaries; others get exterminators. But why? In this fresh and compelling exploration, McCumber blends rigorous data with sharp social analysis to ask a question as strange as it is important: Who's the real problem--us or the rats? This original work positions McCumber as a leading voice in the cultural study of human-animal relationships., In Bad Nature , McCumber's incisive and often witty account of three distinct rat problems nibbles at the edges of human-animal dynamics. The humble rat becomes a scapegoat for moral panics and social anxieties, reflecting cultural boundaries and social inequalities. The book reveals rats as potent symbols at the border between order and disorder, us and them, and we learn much from McCumber about how people seek to assert control over chaos. Who are the real pests in these cultural dramas? Spoiler: it's not always the rats.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
363.78
Table Of Content
1. Introduction Part I: Animals in Boundary Work 2. Rats and "Boundary Work" on the Canadian Prairie 3. "You Can't Ignore the Rat": Guarding Alberta's Moral Character Part II: The Borders of Urban Nature 4. Rats and the Indoors/Outdoors Divide 5. Bulky Items: The "Rat Problem" and the "Homeless Problem" in Downtown LA Part III: Ecologies of Meaning 6. Ecologies of Meaning in Ecuador's Galápagos Islands 7. Killing for Life: Morally Acceptable Lives and Deaths in Environmental Conservation 8. Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix A: Regression Results Table Appendix B: Natural Language Processing References Index
Synopsis
Offers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans' relationships with rats and the natural world. Apart from the occasional pet owner who has rats, most people regard rats as disease-carrying nocturnal pests, scurrying around dumpsters and dragging slices of pizza through New York City subways. Since rats are seemingly omnipresent in human life, why do we harbor such negative feelings about them, and why are they among the creatures most frequently targeted for systematic extermination? In Bad Nature , sociologist Andrew McCumber draws out the cultural underpinnings of rat extermination across three countries and two continents. Drawing from ethnographic, interview, and textual data from the frigid prairie of Alberta, Canada; the heart of downtown Los Angeles, California; and the iconic Galápagos Islands of Ecuador, McCumber studies how humans have sought to suppress and exterminate rat populations in a variety of environmental, social, and political situations. He shows how, in these disparate locations, rat control is a social practice that draws and clarifies the spatial and symbolic boundaries between "good" and "bad" forms of nature. Rats are near the bottom of a symbolic hierarchy of species that places human life at the top, companion animals and majestic wildlife just below them, and the "invasive species" that call for systematic extermination at the very bottom. This hierarchy of living things that places rats at the bottom, McCumber argues, mirrors human systems of social inequalities and power dynamics. Both original and engaging, Bad Nature urges readers to consider, when charting a just and sustainable future, where will the rats be placed in the worlds we envision?
LC Classification Number
SB994.R2M44 2025
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