Pigeon Trouble Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America

Name: Pigeon Trouble Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America
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ISBN: 9780812222708

ISBN-10: 0812222709

ISBN-13: 9780812222708

Edition: 2010

Authors: Hoon Song

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Pigeon Troublechronicles 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.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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 5/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English