Zooland: The Institution of Captivity by Braverman, Irus
Zooland: The Institution of Captivity by Braverman, Irus

Zooland: The Institution of Captivity

This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and...
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Author: Irus Braverman
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Zooland: The Institution of Captivity by Braverman, Irus

Zooland: The Institution of Captivity

$61.54
Zooland: The Institution of Captivity by Braverman, Irus

Zooland: The Institution of Captivity

$61.54
Author: Irus Braverman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland.

Zooland begins and ends with the story of Timmy, the oldest male gorilla in North America, to illustrate the dramatic transformations of zoos since the 1970s. Over these decades, modern zoos have transformed themselves from places created largely for entertainment to globally connected institutions that emphasize care through conservation and education.

Zoos naturalize their spaces, classify their animals, and produce spectacular experiences for their human visitors. Zoos name, register, track, and allocate their animals in global databases. Zoos both abide by and create laws and industry standards that govern their captive animals. Finally, zoos intensely govern the reproduction of captive animals, carefully calculating the life and death of these animals, deciding which of them will be sustained and which will expire. Zooland takes readers behind the exhibits into the world of zoo animals and their caretakers. And in so doing, it turns its gaze back on us to make surprising interconnections between our understandings of the human and the nonhuman.



Author: Irus Braverman
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 11/28/2012
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780804783583


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2012 pg. 8
Library Journal 10/15/2012 pg. 95
Choice 07/01/2013

About the Author
Irus Braverman is Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009).
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