The dogs that didn't bark in the Blitz: transpecies and transpersonal emotional geographies on the British home front

摘要: Abstract This paper uses a case study of animals in wartime to ask how historical animal geographers might approach the geography emotions. Its substantive focus is entangled emotional experiences humans and companion during Second World War on British home front. Arguing against practical political difficulties keeping pets, this moves away from preemptive killing pets phoney war 1939–1940 evidence for value placed by pet owners, civilians general state. Drawing principally Mass-Observation surveys, investigates complexities dynamics front, where affect emotion between people individual were transmitted amplified. Moreover, it emphasised that transpecies emotions portrayed as valuable morale, thus became part governmental calculation. Taking morale distinct form collective targeted state, we can add more-than-human dimension geographies emotion. In sum, argues should be considered both transpersonal phenomenon: because collectively mediated, interactions nonhuman animals.