The Zoo as a Spatial System: A Construct of the World and the Right Distance between Man and Animals
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2010
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Jean Estebanez, « The Zoo as a Spatial System: A Construct of the World and the Right Distance between Man and Animals », L’Espace géographique, ID : 10670/1.4795f0...
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This geography of zoos explores the concept of spatial system to analyse how zoos are not just about architecture, but are also formed by discourse, regulations, technology and tools. Zoos construct a world largely through exoticism and wilderness. They also express a changing and challenged human-animal relationship through the 'right' distance. This article aims to analyse key geographical categories and the connections between the material and the symbolic.
