At the intersection of death geographies and animal geographies, the topic of animal death offers crucial insights for how we understand death and how we define human/nonhuman boundaries. This review piece brings rich discussions of animal death across anthropology, critical animal studies and the environmental humanities into conversation with work in geography. This article takes a two-pronged approach; first, in recognition of the intensely spatial nature of death, this article explores where animal death takes place. This section observes how spaces of animal death are physically concealed and how this spatial distancing is aided by verbal concealment and dismemberment of the animal body, as well as how justifications for killing are organised along spatial lines. This helps to make animals killable in these spaces. The second section focuses on who is killed and made killable as well as who kills. The degree of being killable or grievable is highly uneven amongst animals, as it is amongst humans. Moreover, those individuals who routinely inflict animal death are subject to discrimination and vulnerability due to this proximity. Finally, the article concludes with reflections on what the topic of animal death can contribute to the death geographies and animal geographies literatures, and how we can move towards more animal-centric approaches to animal death.

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远离动物死亡：杀戮和使可杀戮的地理

在死亡地理学和动物地理学的交叉点上，动物死亡这一主题为我们如何理解死亡以及如何定义人类/非人类边界提供了重要的见解。这篇评论文章将人类学、批判性动物研究和环境人文科学中关于动物死亡的丰富讨论与地理学工作进行了对话。本文采用两管齐下的方法；首先，鉴于死亡的强烈空间性，本文探讨了动物死亡发生的地方。本节观察动物死亡的空间是如何被物理隐藏的，这种空间距离是如何通过语言隐藏和动物身体的肢解来辅助的，以及如何沿着空间线组织杀戮的理由。这有助于使动物在这些空间中可被杀死。第二部分侧重于谁被杀和被杀以及谁杀了。动物之间的可杀或可悲的程度非常不平衡，就像在人类中一样。此外，那些经常造成动物死亡的人会因为这种接近而受到歧视和脆弱。最后，文章最后反思了动物死亡这个话题对死亡地理学和动物地理学文献的贡献，以及我们如何转向更以动物为中心的动物死亡方法。