基本信息

Chris Pearson, Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

内容简介

Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.

Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized?

Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.

《犬城》揭示了三大城市发展史中一个令人惊讶的创新源泉：人犬关系。

漫步于当今任何欧美城市，你走不了多远就会看到遛狗的身影。人们理所当然地认为，这些驯养动物能轻松穿行于人行道、街道等城市基础设施之中。但如果我们的城市形态，其实比想象中更受犬类影响呢？

克里斯·皮尔森在《犬城》中大胆而有力地论证： 人犬关系是现代城市生活形态形成的关键因素。聚焦十九世纪初至1930年代的纽约、伦敦与巴黎，皮尔森揭示 人类对犬类的态度如何深刻重塑了这些西方都市。不可否认的事实是：犬类常污秽不堪、好斗凶悍，甚至令人反感——它们四处游荡、传播狂犬病、随地便溺、肆意繁殖。随着十九世纪中产阶级生活中犬只日益普及，城市不得不应对民众对犬类的恐惧及其令人厌恶的习性。 犬类逐步融入城市生活的进程，核心驱动力在于对污秽的厌恶、对犯罪与流浪的恐惧，以及人道主义情怀的倡导。另一方面， 犬类亦是某些人最珍爱的动物伴侣，人类对宠物与流浪犬的怜悯与眷恋，同样成为塑造城市现代性的强大力量。《犬城》细致剖析了情感、情怀与我们表达爱意之方式间的复杂互动——揭示这些力量交织时，竟能重塑整个社会。

目录

Introduction· 1

1 Straying· 13

2 Biting· 47

3 Suffering· 83

4 Thinking· 115

5 Defeating· 149

Coda· 179

Acknowledgments · 183

Appendix: Reflections on Animals, History, and Emotions · 187

Chronology · 193

Notes · 197

Index · 247

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