Nayanika Mathur, "Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Petitions - Can You Give Me a Hunting Permit?
In the process through which the indian state can declare a specific big cat to be cotan qota man eater, according to law, petitions play a very important role. Residents who were sort of petrified of this leopard and wanted her killed and captured as soon as possible would send them on to local officials. The way in which they sort of ar iguess that two or three things. One is like these are not some sort of passive, scared, little, cute, little carismatic animals. They actually have a very powerful life in this tions. And second thing, i think it really was about imagining the non- human thinking about what animals are - you
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