Tolerating Urban Animals: Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species

This project investigates how technologies and techniques to kill, tolerate or care for urban animals are changing in light of political calls for biodiversity and animal welfare.

The project follows the technological development and legislation on animal rights in EU since the 1970s. Through ethnographic studies in Northern Europe of the technologies and techniques used for managing urban animals, the project explores moral values in human-animal relations.

Drawing on Science and Technology Studies, the project focus on the moral relation between technology, policy and everyday practices in managing undomesticated and feral urban animals.

Research focus 

The project asks: Why, where and by whom, are certain technologies seen as adequate and morally appropriate in human-animal relations?

Future staff

• NN, PhD fellow 
• NN, PhD fellow
• NN, postdoc
• NN, postdoc