Species Cleansing The Cultural Practice of Rat Control

The book scrutinizes post-war rat control programs in Poland, exploring their intricate intersections with politics, science, and ideology. It delves into the impact of prevailing cultural narratives concerning problematic urban rodents on pest control and sanitary programs, as well as the ways in w...

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Main Author: Jarzębowska, Gabriela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Göttingen Brill 2024
Series:Culture – Environment – Society
Subjects:
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
Agriculture and farming
Animal studies
c 1500 onwards to present day
Critical animal studies
Discourse analysis
Eastern Europe
Environmental humanities
Europe
Ideology
Interdisciplinary studies
Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
Pest control / plant diseases
Pestcontrol
Place qualifiers
Poland
Political language
Post-war
Propaganda
Rats
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Sanitary programs
Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
Time period qualifiers
Urban animals
ISBN:9783847117452, 373701745X, 3847117459, 9783737017459
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Summary:The book scrutinizes post-war rat control programs in Poland, exploring their intricate intersections with politics, science, and ideology. It delves into the impact of prevailing cultural narratives concerning problematic urban rodents on pest control and sanitary programs, as well as the ways in which biological factors shape, challenge, or impede political modernization initiatives. Employing urban rat populations as an unequivocal exemplar of an undesirable element, the author constructs an inquiry into the strategies of political exclusion. The analysis of rat extermination schemes facilitates an exploration of the patterns of social progress within a semi-peripheral country and the discursive shifts evident in political language regarding the troublesome non-human urban residents.
ISBN:9783847117452
373701745X
3847117459
9783737017459
DOI:10.14220/9783737017459