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Les jardins zoologiques ou l'exotique à portée de main

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: : This paper shows how the exotic is a key concept to analyse zoos. Wherever their location in the world, zoos always show the same core collection. Looking at what continents and animals zoos present, we can analyse them as a form of microcosm of the world, mainly constructed through the lenses of colonisation. Zoos try to build a place that is away in space and time, at a supposed golden age when few technology was between Nature and Mankind.

Source: Le Globe Revue genevoise de géographie

DOI: 10.3406/globe.2008.1541

Author: Jean Estebanez

Language: English

Topic: Geographies of human-animal interactions

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2203685136

FWCI: 8.939

Cites: 7

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10