Erik Garrett: 2 books
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
Why Do We Go to the Zoo?
Communication, Animals, and the Cultural-Historical Experience of Zoos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Despite hundreds of millions of visitors each year, zoos have remained outside of the realm of philosophical analysis. This lack of theoretical examination is interesting considering the paradoxical position within which a zoo is situated, being a space of animal confinement as well as a site that...