Multispeces Brno: encounters in a Central Europe City

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2023.194642

Keywords:

Brno, Multispecies, Urbanity, Encounters, Animals

Abstract

This photoessay is dedicated at introducing some possible encounters with a multispecies network in the City of Brno, in Czech Republic. Moving around the city, several animals appear in the buildings, streets and squares, enabling a hybrid experience with these other-than-humans sharing the urban space. The reflections about the multispecies character of urban spaces enable to highlight the collective and hybrid dimension of the sensorial curiosity promoted by the encounters with the other-than-humans. Mythical, exotic and domestic animals are present in diverse locations of the Brno, some connecting with the history of the city, other with its social and public dimensions. The proposal is that representing such multispecies encounters enables an eclectic city to emerge and to be experienced.

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Author Biography

  • Paride Bollettin, Masaryk University

    Paride Bollettin is PhD in Anthropology from the Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy, 2011). Since 2005 works with the Mebengokré-Xikrin of the Trincheira-Bacaja Indigenous Land (PA-Brazil). Actually, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University (Czech), Permanent Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences of the Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” (Brazil), Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Anthropology, Durham University (UK), and Scientific Director of the Museum of the Centro Studi Americanistici “Circolo Amerindiano” (Italy). He published several papers and book, and coordinates the open access book series Encounters with the editor Cleup. E-mail: paride_bollettin@msn.com. 

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Published

2023-03-31

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023)

Section

Gesture, image and sounds

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Bollettin, Paride. 2023. “Multispeces Brno: Encounters in a Central Europe City”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 8 (1): e194642. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2023.194642.