Pigeon Trouble: Bestiary Biopolitics in a Deindustrialized America

Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign—born, birdphobic anthropologist's venture into the occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Though initially drawn by a widely publicized antipigeon shoot protest by animal rights activists, the author quickly finds himself traversing into a territory much stranger than clashing worldviews—an uncanny world saturated with pigeon matters, both figuratively and literally.

What transpires is a sustained meditatio...