Pigeon Trouble – Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America

Introduction Chapter 1. Cruelty through Glassy Eyes Chapter 2. Gloved Love Chapter 3. Hooliganism Chapter 4. Pests and Outcasts Chapter 5. Mimesis and Conspiracy Theory Chapter 6. Representationalism's Animal Other Chapter 7. The Line of Flight, Out of Bird Phobia Conclusion: Self-Reflexivity and Finite Thinking Notes References Index Acknowledgments

"Offering a rare and intimate account of anxieties that can proliferate in encounters with animal Others, Pigeon Trouble will certainly become a canonical text in the emergent interdisciplinary tradition of multispecies ethnography."-Cultural Anthropology "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