Circulating elephants : unpacking the geographies of a cosmopolitan animal
Elephant ; Human ecology ; India ; Mobility ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; United Kingdom
This paper seeks to develop a ‘more-than-human’ cosmopolitanism that accounts for the presence of nonhuman animals and entities in stories of circulation and contact. Through a multi-sited ethnography of elephant conservation in India and the UK
, the paper illustrates how animals become participants in forging connections across difference. Through their circulation, elephants become cosmopolitan, present in diverse cultures and serving banal global consumption. The paper then illustrates how
cosmopolitan elephants may be coercive, giving rise to political frictions and new inequalities when mobilised by powerful, transnational environmental actors. It concludes by discussing the methodological and conceptual implications of a more-than-human
Bio-geo-graphy: landscape, dwelling, and the political ecology of human–elephant
Assam ; Biogeography ; Cohabitation ; Crop ; Ecology ; Elephant ; Forest ; India ; Landscape ; Political ecology
Drawing upon postcolonial environmental history, animal ecology, and more-than-human geography, this paper examines how humans and elephants cohabit with and against the grain of cartographic design in Assam. It conceptualises and deploys
a methodology of ‘tracking’ through which archival material, elephant ecology, and voices of the marginalised can be integrated and mapped. It concludes by discussing the implications of this work for fostering new conversations between more-than-human geography
After the king of beasts : Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon
The paper focuses on the exploits of S. Baker and some of his contemporaries. It critically engages with existing work on hunting and colonial natural history by examining interwoven human and nonhuman experiences, exploring elephant hunting
Alcoholism ; Applied ecology ; Assam ; Conflict ; Elephant ; Ethology ; India ; Livelihood ; Political ecology ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Rural economy ; Rural population
This paper examines the role of materials in mediating people’s relationships with elephants in rural Assam, northeast India. It shows that materials, in this case alcohol,binds people and elephants in unforeseen ways. This examination of social
Age profiles in elephant and mammoth bone assemblages
Age profiles of modern African elephant populations are significantly affected by drought conditions that cause local die-offs. Subadult animals die in proportions that may be nearly twice what is recorded in live populations. Such biasing of death
Brief ecological description of the Dakata valley, a granitic mountainous area in the Harerge region. It is an elephant sanctuary believed to contain most of the last 300 individuals of the endemic subspecies, Loxondonta africana orleansi. Somali
conférences internationales qui se tenaient auparavant en parallèle sur ce sujet : International Mammoths Conference et World of Elephants. Elle fait donc le lien entre le travail des paléontologues sur les fossiles et des biologistes sur les éléphants. Au