{"id":1057,"date":"2021-02-16T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:35:18","slug":"online-book-talk-nayanika-mathur-crooked-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-nayanika-mathur-crooked-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Nayanika Mathur, Crooked Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nayanika Mathur, associate professor in anthropology at University of Oxford, presented <em><a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/C\/bo85902176.html\">Crooked Cats. Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene<\/a><\/em> (University of Chicago Press, 2021) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on 27 September 2021 at 16:00 in Norway \/ 15:00 in UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do humans live near big cats\u2014tigers, leopards, and lions\u2014that may or may not be predatory? Though they are popularly known as \u201cman eaters,\u201d this new book by anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reframes them as cats that have gone off the straight path to become \u201ccrooked.\u201d Her firsthand account of\u00a0living with crooked cats in India lays bare the peculiar atmosphere of terror these encounters create, reinforced by rumors, anger, humor, myths, conspiracy theories, and the making of \u201ccelebrity\u201d cats.<br><br>There are various theories of why and how a big cat turns to eating people, and Mathur lays out the dominant ideas offered on the basis of fifteen years of research in India. These vary from the effects of climate change and habitat loss to history and politics. There is no firm explanation for why specific big cats turn on humans, even from the scientists who study animal behavior. Detailing the beastly tales emerging from the uncertainty created by the presence and actions of crooked cats, this book offers startling new insights into both the governance of nonhumans and their deep entanglements with humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse book talk: Mathur\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/617030916?h=2f0d5e1a36&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nayanika Mathur, associate professor in anthropology at University of Oxford, presented Crooked Cats. 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