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The Role of Landscape in Regulating (Ir)responsible Conduct: Moral Geographies of the ‘Proper Control’ of Dogs
Practices of outdoor access involve the regulation of people and animals as together they constitute particular landscapes. Conduct is ordered through law and moral norms to avert or minimise harm to people, livestock, wildlife and wider ecologies. This paper examines dogwalking in the Cairngorms National Park, illustrating how conceptions and experiences of landscapes and animals combine to shape the ability to co-exist across species boundaries. Drawing on a study using video methods, it investigates how ‘wildness’ and allied notions of ‘freedom’ and ‘escape’ are mobilised in practice to produce particular (ir)responsible cross-species encounters, and how joint human–animal conduct—specifically the ‘control’ of dogs—is geographically constituted. A tension emerges between well-being and countryside regulation: the well-being associated with experiencing ‘freedom’ and the ‘control’ required by law for multispecies flourishing. The findings contribute to broader debate on how landscapes matter in the achievement of ethical animal–human relations.
The Role of Landscape in Regulating (Ir)responsible Conduct: Moral Geographies of the ‘Proper Control’ of Dogs
Practices of outdoor access involve the regulation of people and animals as together they constitute particular landscapes. Conduct is ordered through law and moral norms to avert or minimise harm to people, livestock, wildlife and wider ecologies. This paper examines dogwalking in the Cairngorms National Park, illustrating how conceptions and experiences of landscapes and animals combine to shape the ability to co-exist across species boundaries. Drawing on a study using video methods, it investigates how ‘wildness’ and allied notions of ‘freedom’ and ‘escape’ are mobilised in practice to produce particular (ir)responsible cross-species encounters, and how joint human–animal conduct—specifically the ‘control’ of dogs—is geographically constituted. A tension emerges between well-being and countryside regulation: the well-being associated with experiencing ‘freedom’ and the ‘control’ required by law for multispecies flourishing. The findings contribute to broader debate on how landscapes matter in the achievement of ethical animal–human relations.
The Role of Landscape in Regulating (Ir)responsible Conduct: Moral Geographies of the ‘Proper Control’ of Dogs
Brown, Katrina M. (author)
Landscape Research ; 40 ; 39-56
2015-01-02
18 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Landscape , animals , wild , conduct , well-being
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