Clemens Wischermann’s scientific contributions

... The data collection occurred in three phases. First, Bennett et al., 2021;Bódizs et al., 2020;Carlen et al., 2021;Delon, 2020;Göttert & Perry, 2023;Kalof & Whitley, 2021;Leveau, 2020;Torretta et al., 2021;Wischermann et al., 2019;Yom-Tov, 2003). ...

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An exploratory analysis of the development and implementation of urban animal welfare policy in public spaces for four common species: Cats, dogs, pigeons, and foxes in the Brussels Capital Region

... Cats are 'liminal' animals in their capacity to traverse both the physical and conceptual distinctions between domestic and wild lives (Donaldson and Kymlicka, 2011;Wischermann and Howell, 2019). The concept of liminality was initially used in anthropology to denote transitional states such as that between child and adult (Turner, 1967). ...

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THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN'S URBAN EDGE

... With regard to this animal-centered perspective on economic aspects of colonialism, we can link Morenga to current historical studies, which focus on the agency of nonhuman 'others' in historical processes. By characterizing the oxen as actors and, in general, as an important part of colonization, the novel reflects and anticipates the findings of an 'animate history' that questions the common position that animals are solely objects of history and its interpretations (see [21], p. 10). While most research firstly refers to the human parties that are involved in colonial experiences, German historian Gesine Krüger, in turn, underlines that the discourse has to be open to nonhuman animals for several reasons: ...

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An Animal-Centered Perspective on Colonial Oppression: Animal Representations and the Narrating Ox in Uwe Timm’s Morenga (1978)