In this essay, Wiener-Anspach Alumna Violette Pouillard traces the history of zoological gardens from the perspective of animals, focusing on Paris’ Jardin des Plantes and on the zoos of London and Antwerpen, from their opening at the beginning of the 19th century to the present.
Dr Pouillard was granted a Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellowship from 2015 to 2017 to carry out a research project entitled “The Imperial Zoo. The appropriation and conservation of colonia fauna by the Western elites (Uganda, Kenya, congo, 19th century – 1963)” at the African Studies Center of the University of Oxford. She is currently FNRS/FWO Postdoctoral researcher at the ULB and at the University of Ghent, where she teaches Environmental History.
More information about the book is available on the website the of the publisher, Champ Vallon.