Placing the Wild in the City: "Thinking with" Melbourne's Bats

摘要: This paper uses academic and lay discourses to examine the ways in which "the city" is constructed its relationship "wildlife." The examines negative essentialized city's wildlife has been represented postcolonial theory animal geography. further explores these theoretical framings of city empirical context relocation an urban, flying fox colony, provides opportunities reconsider bounded conceptualizations city.