Bad Nature : How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds

Name: Bad Nature : How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Bad NatureHow Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds\nAuthor(s): Andrew McCumber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226838984, 978-0226838984\nSynopsis\nOffers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans relationships with rats and the natural world. \n Apart from the occasional pet owner who has rats, most people regard rats as disease-carrying nocturnal pests, scurrying around dumpsters and dragging slices of pizza through New York City subways. Since rats are seemingly omnipresent in human life, why do we harbor such negative feelings about them, and why are they among the creatures most frequently targeted for systematic extermination?\n\n In Bad Nature, sociologist Andrew McCumber draws out the cultural underpinnings of rat extermination across three countries and two continents. Drawing from ethnographic, interview, and textual data from the frigid prairie of Al?