Environmental justice in a multispecies city. Othering, governing and resistance of abject and protected animals

气候变化、城市化和其他因素威胁着全球物种的生存条件。有鉴于此，越来越多的人呼吁将城市（和其他迄今为止完全属于人类的空间）理解为“共同的生境”，并将迄今为止纯粹的社会科学概念，如城市权或环境正义视为“超越人类”。该项目采取了这一点，并在一个基本的方式问如何在城市环境中的社会-野生动物的关系可以考虑到人文地理。因此，三个指导性问题是：1）什么是概念上合理的和经验上可实现的出发点，在城市背景下的共享栖息地的分析？2)初步的实证研究结果可以确定的主要因素影响社会野生动物的关系，在城市空间？3)人类地理学的概念和社会空间分析的方法如何能够被转移到社会动物关系中，其局限性在哪里？三个分析类别提出的分析：其他询问社会话语如何问题化野生城市动物。治理的问题是这些属性如何反映在具体的政策中，而抵抗则着眼于日常实践的“抵抗”--动物本身的抵抗，尤其是人类与野生动物的遭遇--这些抵抗挑战了话语和政策，并产生了关于城市作为角质栖息地的新形式的知识。这些类别的可行性是通过将它们应用于两个非常不同的野生动物“群体”来测试的：作为城市社会之外的经典动物（鸽子，老鼠，入侵物种）和受保护动物，它们以各种方式被视为理想的共同居民。案例研究是美因河畔的法兰克福。

Climate change, urbanisation and other factors threaten the living conditions of species worldwide. In view of this, there are increasing calls for cities (and other hitherto exclusively human spaces) to be understood as "shared habitats" and for hitherto purely social-scientific concepts such as right to the city or environmental justice to be thought of as "more-than-human". The project takes this up and asks in a fundamental way how society-wildlife relations in the urban context can be taken into account by human geography. Accordingly, the three guiding questions are: 1) What are conceptually justifiable and empirically realisable starting points for the analysis of shared habitats in the urban context? 2) Can initial empirical findings be identified on the main factors influencing society-wildlife relations in urban space? 3) How can human-geographical concepts and methods of society-space analysis be transferred to society-animal relations and where are the limits? Three analytical categories are proposed for analysis: Othering asks how social discourses problematise wild urban animals. Governing asks how such attributions are reflected in concrete policies, and Resistance looks at the "resistances" of everyday practice - of the animals themselves, but especially of human-wildlife encounters - that challenge discourses and policies and produce new forms of knowledge concerning the city as a horny habitat. The viability of the categories is tested by applying them to two very contrasting "groups" of wild animals: Abject animals as the classic outside of urban society (pigeons, rats, invasive species) and protected animals, which are addressed in various ways as desirable co-inhabitants. The case study is Frankfurt am Main.