Coyote Killing: Where Species and Identities Collide

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI:10.1163/15685306-bja10121

Shelley Alexander, Dianne Draper, Alexandra Boesel

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Abstract

Abstract Although predator killing is a global phenomenon, few studies interrogate the individual and societal drivers of choosing lethal versus non-lethal actions towards coyotes. Results here derive from 48 in situ , semi-structured interviews conducted during 2015–2017 with rural residential and agricultural landowners in the Foothills Parkland Region of Alberta, Canada. Interviews recorded landowner experiences with coyotes, and their perceptions, values, beliefs, animal husbandry practices, and actions towards coyotes. Invoking a critical geography perspective and grounded theory methods, we found the practice of coyote killing and anti-coyote sentiments to be deeply entangled with and mutually reconstituted by constructs of “masculinity,” “rurality,” and colonial settler identity. Coyote killing also appeared as a form of discursive power, arising from urban-rural tensions. Finally, geographies of local history, family, and community intersected with identity, gendered-labor, and power – placing coyotes in a vicious and ongoing cycle of oppression and violence.

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土狼杀戮:物种与身份的碰撞

尽管捕食者的杀戮是一个全球性的现象，但很少有研究质疑对土狼选择致命或非致命行为的个人和社会驱动因素。本文的结果来自于2015-2017年间对加拿大阿尔伯塔省山麓公园地区的农村住宅和农业土地所有者进行的48次现场半结构化访谈。采访记录了土地所有者与土狼的经历，以及他们的观念、价值观、信仰、畜牧业实践和对土狼的行动。运用批判地理学的视角和扎根的理论方法，我们发现猎杀土狼的实践和反土狼的情绪与“男子气概”、“乡村性”和殖民定居者身份的建构深深纠缠在一起，并相互重构。郊狼的杀戮也作为一种话语权力的形式出现，产生于城乡之间的紧张关系。最后，当地历史、家庭和社区的地理位置与身份、性别劳动和权力交织在一起，将土狼置于压迫和暴力的恶性循环中。

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Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.