Publications

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2024
Authors
Srinivasan K., Rubio-Ramon G., Ramp D, Chapple R

The recent years have seen much controversy around street dogs in India, with increasingly polarised debate in public platforms about their impacts on human health and wellbeing, and about how they should be controlled or managed.

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2024
Journal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Authors
Srinivasan, K.

This paper examines the possibilities for nature in contemporary times through a ground-up investigation of nature practices in Chennai, India.

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2019
Journal
Palgrave Communications
Authors
Srinivasan, K., Kurz, T., Kuttava, P., and Pearson, C.

In this article, we reflect on the institutional and everyday realities of people-street dog relations in India to develop a case for decolonised approaches to rabies and other zoonoses.

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2019
Journal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Authors
Srinivasan, K

This paper examines the socio-legal and everyday moral geographies of human cohabitation with free-living dogs in India to think through what is implicated in living with nonhuman difference on a planet where the social and the natural are inextricably entangled.

Past and present
2017
Journal
Past and present
Authors
Pearson, C.

This article traces the policing of stray dogs in Paris from the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War.

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2012
Journal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Authors
Srinivasan K.

The UK is widely regarded as a nation committed to animal welfare. On the other hand, the precarious lives of India’s stray dogs have attracted a considerable amount of international animal activist attention, and raised questions about the nation’s indifference to these animals.

Economic and Political Weekly
2007
Journal
Economic and Political Weekly
Authors
Srinivasan K., and Nagaraj V.K.

Rather than implement animal birth control through sterilisation and adhere to the rules of solid waste management, the municipal authority in Bangalore recently launched a programme to kill all stray dogs. This is only an eyewash, meant to placate certain groups and gain political mileage.