ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals with animals that are often considered as domestic. It examines convivialities with domesticates as place making practices. The book highlights how these practices, places and relationships are always precarious and cannot be divorced from the power laden contexts through which they emerge. It focuses on responses to upheavals in the particularity of animal places. The book examines how the contemporary practices of pet-keeping as 'care' is increasingly coupled with consumerism. It argues that the cards have the potential to challenge the normative boundary between grievable and ungrievable life. The book explores how, through the perspectives of dead ancestors and traditional gods, the stakes of these scenes come to include not just the continuity of shoreline communities, but also a shoring up of multinatural histories and futures.
