Winged Worlds

Olga Petri is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Researcher in the Geography Department of Cambridge University. Her main interest is in the cultural and historical geographies, social communities and more-than-human assemblages in urban spaces shaped by the modern bureaucratic state. She is the author of Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siecle St. Petersburg (2022). Michael Guida is a Research Associate in Media & Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. He is a writer and a historian of nature in modern British urban culture, with a particular interest in human-avian relations. His first book is called Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio & Modern Life, 1914-1945 (2022).

Learning to live in winged worlds: introduction

Olga Petri

Part I Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Out of Place

1. Displaying displacement: exhibiting extinct birds in natural history museums

Dolly Jørgensen

2. Pigeons and other strangers in post-war Britain

Philip Howell

3. Migration at the limit: More-than-human creativity and catastrophe

Andrew J. Whitehouse

4. Humans and birds on British farms, 1950–2000

Paul Merchant

Part II Making Sense of Shared Space

5. Airborne: experience and atmospheric movements in falconry practice

Sara Asu Schroer

6. Sonic habitats: aerial nomadism and the sound of birds

Patricia Jäggi

7. The changing geographies of human-starling relations in the shared spaces of the Anthropocene

Andy Morris

8. The public lives of pigeon passengers: how pigeons and humans share space on a train

Shawn Bodden

Part III Flights of Fancy

9. Birds as winged words: a reading of Aristophanes, The Birds

Jeremy Mynott

10. Birds and Christian imagery

Roger S. Wotton

11. Early modern Toucans in space and imagination

Alex Lawrence

12. Peregrine flights: the emergence of digital winged geographies

William M. Adams, Adam Searle, and Jonathon Turnbull