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Calgary

City of Animals

edited by Jim Ellis

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
May 2017
Subjects
General, General, Plants & Animals
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552389706
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $15.99

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Description

 

How have our interactions with animals shaped Calgary?

What can we do to ensure that humans and animals in the city continue to co-exist, and even flourish together?

This wide-ranging book explores the ways that animals inhabit our city, our lives and our imaginations.

Essays from animal historians, wildlife specialists, artists and writers address key issues such as human-wildlife interactions, livestock in the city, and animal performers at the Calgary Stampede.

Contributions from some of Calgary's iconic arts institutions, including One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, and the Glenbow Museum, demonstrate how animals continue to be a source of inspiration and exploration for fashion, art, dance, and theatre.

The full-colour volume is beautifully illustrated throughout with archival images, wildlife photography, documentary and production stills, and original artwork. Index

 

About the author

Jim Ellis is Professor of English and Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary. He has written widely on art, literatue and film, and has served on the boards of Truck Gallery and Calgary Cinematheque.

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Editorial Reviews

 

The usefulness of the work is to place scholarly interventions in conversation with activists working with wildlife rehabilitation and habitat conservation, as well as artists and a museum curator who explore the importance of animals as inspiration and fellow creatures. The book challenges the neat distinctions one might draw among disciplines or among artists, activists, and scholars. It shows not only that animals, human and non-human, might co-flourish in the city, but that those different fields of activity might co–flourish.

—Frederick L. Brown, Network in Canadian History and Environment

 

 

[This book] resembles a walk through an intriguing city: something striking and new and unexpected seems to be around every corner . . . [it] ] presents a view of Calgary quite different from its usual self-promoted image.

—Mark Lisac, Prime Times