The Global Pigeon: How Animals Shape the Social Life of the City
Wednesday 17 October, 2012
5pm, $0
New York University, Silver Center
100 Washington Square East, Room 101A
The city is typically thought of as a place devoid of animals and nature, and nonhumans are usually considered irrelevant to the study of society. This talk explores how interactions with animals are profoundly social encounters that shape our sense of self, our relationships with other people, and our experience of the city. Previewing his forthcoming book, The Global Pigeon, Jerolmack draws on over three years of firsthand anthropological research across a variety of settings from a community study of working-class men who breed and race pigeons in New York to an examination of the criminalization of pigeon feeding in London and Venice.
Colin Jerolmack is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at NYU, and the author of the forthcoming book The Global Pigeon (University of Chicago Press). He received his PhD in sociology from the City University of New York, and before arriving at NYU was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar at Harvard University.
Colin Jerolmack is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at NYU, and the author of the forthcoming book The Global Pigeon (University of Chicago Press). He received his PhD in sociology from the City University of New York, and before arriving at NYU was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar at Harvard University.