Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Jim Ellis, Director, CIH
• How Canadians Used to Use Livestock in Cities
• Sean Kheraj
• Outlaw Horses and the True Spirit of Calgary In the Automobile Age
• Susan Nance
• Silence of the Song Dogs
• Shelly M. Alexander
• Counting Chickadees and Reimagining the Map of Calgary
• Angela Waldie
• Critical Animal Studies and the Humanities: A Critical Introduction
• Mohammad Sadeghi Esfahlani
• Wild Animals in the City
• Jenna Mcfarland and Andrea Hunt, Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society
• Light Pollution in an Animal City
• Maureen Luchsinger and Laura Griffin, Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area
• Excerpt
• Our Biodiversity: Calgary's 10-Year Biodiversity Plan
• Squirrel vs. Gopher from Calgary I love You, But You're Killing Me
• One Yellow Rabbit Ensemble
• Becoming Insects: A New Universe
• Kimberly Cooper, Artistic Director, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
• Kaleidoscopic Animalia: An Exhibition Designed and Curated by Paul Hardy
• Paul Hardy and Melanie Kjorlien
• Lisa Brawn Interview and Portfolio: Wild Bird Woodcuts
• Calgary Institute for the Humanities
• Her Dark Materials: Yvonne Mullock's Dark Horse at Stride gallery
• Jim Ellis
• Conclusion
• Jim Ellis
• Notes
• Contributors

About the Author

Jim Ellis is Professor of English and Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary. He has written widely on art, literatue and film.

Reviews

The usefulness of the work is to place scholarly interventions in conversation with activists working with wildlife rehabilitation and habitat conservation, as well as artists and a museum curator who explore the importance of animals as inspiration and fellow creatures. The book challenges the neat distinctions one might draw among disciplines or among artists, activists, and scholars. It shows not only that animals, human and non-human, might co-flourish in the city, but that those different fields of activity might co-flourish. -Frederick L. Brown, Network in Canadian History and Environment

[This book] resembles a walk through an intriguing city: something striking and new and unexpected seems to be around every cornerâ| [it] presents a view of Calgary quite different from its usual self-promoted image. - Mark Lisac, Prime Times