Multispecies home (un)making: Dogs and lifestyle migrants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China.
This study advances scholarship in animal geography by examining how dogs participate in the processual and relational making and unmaking of home within the context of global lifestyle migration. Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with 36 participants in Lijiang Ancient Town, China, thi...
| Published in: | Geographical Journal Vol. 191; no. 4; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2025
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