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世界各地物种的生存条件。有鉴于此，越来越多的人呼吁将城市(和其他迄今专属于人类的空间)理解为“共有的栖息地”，并要求将城市权利或环境正义等迄今纯粹的社会科学概念视为“比人类更重要”。该项目对此进行了探讨，并从根本上探讨了人文地理学如何考虑城市环境中的社会与野生动物之间的关系。因此，三个指导性问题是：1)在城市背景下分析共享栖息地的概念上合理和经验上可实现的起点是什么？2)能否确定影响城市空间中社会-野生动物关系的主要因素的初步经验结论？3)如何将人类-地理概念和社会-空间分析方法转移到社会-动物关系中，界限在哪里？本文提出了三个分析类别进行分析：Othering询问社会话语如何使城市野生动物成为问题。治国问的是这种归属如何反映在具体的政策中，而抵抗则着眼于日常实践--动物本身，尤其是人与野生动物的接触--的“阻力”，这些阻力挑战了话语和政策，并产生了关于这座城市作为角质栖息地的新形式的知识。这些分类的可行性是通过将它们应用于两组截然不同的野生动物来检验的：典型的城市社会以外的可怜动物(鸽子、老鼠、入侵物种)和受保护动物，它们被以各种方式称为令人满意的共同居住者。案例研究是美因河畔法兰克福。

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.