Book Review: Finn Arne Jørgensen; Dolly Jørgensen (Editors). Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human–Animal Relationships. 336 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.

What do oxen in calorimeters, wolves in Finland, penguins in the US postal system, and moose pursued through GPS-linked hunts have in common? In Finn Arne Jørgensen and Dolly Jørgensen’s edited volume Sharing Spaces: Technology, Mediation, and Human–Animal Relationships, they all reveal how technologies entangle humans and animals in ways at once mundane, absurd, and consequential. Situated within the flourishing field of multispecies studies, which – after Donna Haraway – has urged us to “stay with the trouble,” the collection offers a novel sustained focus on technology as a mediator, amplifier, and co-actor in human–animal relations, pairing conceptual insights with vivid narratives that bring historical encounters to life while probing their ethical dimensions. The book pulses with animal agency; seals, bears, and dogs answer back, assert themselves, and speak up in ways that refuse to be neatly framed or catalogued. Technologies
are likewise active agents, shaping and reshaping encounters, redistributing power, and producing new forms of intimacy and conflict.