Progress report Animal geographies I

Animal geographies has emerged over the last 15 years as a lively and provocative area of current human/ non-human geographical research and scholarship. Yet, while the ‘animal turn ’ has arguably impacted widely across a range of social sciences and the humanities, for ‘human ’ geography it offers what is potentially a far more fundamental and profound reconfiguration of the discipline’s traditional ontological and epistemologi-cal reach, not least given the challenge that the ‘animal ’ brings to the exclusivity of geography’s adjectival humanism. This article is the first of three reports on animal geographies. It sets out the development of the subdiscipline, from the mid-1990s onwards, and charts the emergence of what has become a distinctive and innovative field with increasing interdisciplinary connections