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Accepted Paper:

Contemporary city birds and humans  
Mare Kõiva (Estonian Literary Museum)

Paper short abstract:

This paper aims to discuss the relations between nonhumans (city birds) and humans using materials of two different groups. The research analyzes the importance and hardness of relationships and demonstrates changes influenced by wild birds invading cities and hidden sides of nonhuman life

Paper long abstract:

This presentation views different types of communication between nonhumans (city birds) and humans, how their relationship has changed and developed. In the recent 100 year there has been many common habitudes towards birds, like feeding them in the winter or building houses for them, etc. The paper analyzes what kind of changes caused by the wild birds moving to the city environment, changes in cultural views and possibility to have a look on hidden side of nonhuman life. The second aim is to analyze how humans operate with terms like good or bad, pleasant, content, indignation, etc. which demonstrates complicated emotions.

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