{"product_id":"pigeon-trouble-bestiary-biopolitics-in-a-deindustrialized-america-paperback-softback-9780812222708","title":"Pigeon Trouble; Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812222708","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePigeon Trouble\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHoon Song (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812222708\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.404 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Offering a rare and intimate account of anxieties that can proliferate in encounters with animal Others, \u003ci\u003ePigeon Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e will certainly become a canonical text in the emergent interdisciplinary tradition of multispecies ethnography.\" (\u003ci\u003eCultural Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e) \"This spectacular account of a remarkable event opens into a larger philosophical consideration of mass cultural identity production. Hoon Song reveals how the animal-based rhetoric of a pigeon shoot connects it to discourses with broad cultural significance. I know of no other book that combines so effectively the elements of ethnography, cultural studies, media event analysis, and contemporary discourse on animals.\" (John Dorst, University of Wyoming)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePigeon Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 experiment through a phobic gaze concludes with a critique on the visual trope in anthropology's self-reflexive turn.\u003cbr\u003e An ethnographer with a taste for philosophy, Song writes in a distinctive descriptive and analytical style, obsessed with his locale and its inhabitants, constantly monitoring his own reactions and his impact on others, but always teasing out larger implications to his subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Cruelty through Glassy Eyes\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Gloved Love\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Hooliganism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Pests and Outcasts\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Mimesis and Conspiracy Theory\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Representationalism's Animal Other\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Line of Flight, Out of Bird Phobia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Self-Reflexivity and Finite Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702521327896,"sku":"9780812222708","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pigeon-trouble-bestiary-biopolitics-in-a-deindustrialized-america-paperback-softback-9780812222708","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}