Author Archives: Merle Patchett

The secret life of taxidermy

By Merle Patchett 24 February 2022 Essays

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The skin of taxidermy animals belies both a false steel structure and a sanitisation of colonial violence

AR February 2022: Animals

31 January 2022 By AR Editors

La Shed Architecture | Paradigma Ariadné | Hopkins Architects | Bangkok Project…

13th century drawing of humans controlling various animals

Outrage: humans are animals too

2 February 2022 By Crispin Sartwell

As we address the ecological disaster of our making, humans must remember…

Animal infrastructures: building across species

3 February 2022 By Valeria Meiller

Human systems have made use of other species for millennia, but spatial…

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Cattle and colonialism: the animals that built Sydney

8 February 2022 By Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

Runaway herds of cattle shaped the progress of the British colonisation of Australia, where…

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Conservation and capital in Kenya

9 February 2022 By Jessica Dempsey

Confronted with land inequality sedimented by colonial legacies, mechanisms of capital cannot…

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Ape town: living with baboons in Cape Town

11 February 2022 By Tim Dee

Neither human nor baboon can manage the living-together-but-apart that would be required…

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The return of the wolf to the Alps: coexistence in pastoral landscapes

15 February 2022 By Elisabeth Tauber

Tourism and agriculture have transformed the landscape of South Tyrol in northern…

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