Mullan, A;
Smallman, R;
de Bondt, H;
Waterman, J;
The Hand that Feeds: The complex relations of human–animal
feeding.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Food plays a major part in shaping human–animal relations, from nurturing farm and zoo animals to bringing wild birds into suburban gardens. Food-mediated interactions create personal interspecies bonds, enrich and alter environments, change species distributions, enable new relationships and reconfigure social perspectives, but also lead to many concerns over health and disease, for example, as well as conflicts over spaces and resources. However, previous attention has almost exclusively focused on the purpose-driven, utilitarian and economic aspects of feeding, rather than the affective and emotional encounters that motivate many feeding practices. Presenting new research and interdisciplinary case studies, The Hand that Feeds considers animal feeding from historic to modern times. The volume explores the nuances and complexity of non-utilitarian feeding relationships, across urban and rural divides, in the wild, on the farm, at the zoo and in the garden, and how our feeding relationships have altered animal distributions and behaviours. The authors scrutinise contrasts between which species are promoted and which are persecuted, and how the species we choose to feed reflects broader world views and cultural values. Ultimately, this volume engages in the discussion of how we feed, why we feed, which animals we deem worthy of feeding and the widespread impacts of feeding relations.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Hand that Feeds: The complex relations of human–animal feeding |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088337 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088337 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088337 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Mullan, A., Smallman, R., De Bondt, H. and Waterman, J. (eds.). 2025. The Hand that Feeds: The complex relations of human–animal feeding. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088337 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | animal feeding, human-animal relations, ethnography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207946 |
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