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Remaking One Health:
Decolonial Approaches to Street Dogs and Rabies Prevention in India.

ROH Indies combines human geography, history, behavioural ecology, and social psychology to study people-street dog interactions (or Indie dogs, as they are referred to in India), dog ecology, and rabies prevention in urban and rural India to understand why rabies persists as a public health problem in India. Our study’s significance lies in its departure from the singular emphasis on ‘stray’ dog control. For this, we incorporate local understandings of street dogs as part of society, and examine positive and negative dimensions of interspecies health in urban, rural, and peri-urban India. Our overarching aim is to advance decolonial concepts and practices for healthy multispecies societies.

Latest publications

Hybrid Publics of Human and Other-than-Human Life: Free-Living Dogs and the “Green” and “Healthy” City in India

2024
Multi-layered collage: Dholera, Gujarat’s futuristic greenfield city in the making – from solar park to Make in India chip hub – “squatted” by hybrid publics between human and other-than-human life: people consuming street food and free-living dogs. Artwork: Colnate Group, 2024 (cc by nc)

The human-dog relationship, conflict and coexistence

2024
A photo of a relaxed promenade. In the foreground, several free-living dogs rest alongside a crow. In the background, people sit or stand casually, paying little attention to the dogs.

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Media cover of ROH-Indies related work

  • PuthuYugam TV (Online TV channel). (2024) நாய்கள் துரத்தினால் நீங்கள் உடனே செய்ய வேண்டியவை இவைதான் (What you need to do if chased by dogs). 26/09/…

Following the Animals: Connecting Animal, Health, and Colonial Histories

Online Workshop, University of Liverpool, 28th April 2023

Streets are lively more-than-human spaces. Dogs, cats, monkeys, rats, cows, and pigeons…

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Raags for Dogs: Vallena

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The Animal Turn podcast - Season 7: Animals and Multispecies Health

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Remaking One Health: Decolonial Approaches to Street Dogs and Rabies Prevention in India.
This programme is funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award in Humanities and Social Sciences.

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