Herre de Bondt is PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Roehampton. With a background in anthropology and urban studies, he is interested in the ways nonhuman animals inform and shape the contemporary city. Gulls in The Hague, Tokyo’s crows, rats in Amsterdam, and a variety of bird species in London have guided his research into multispecies relations. Herre is interested in how more-than-human assemblages challenge anthropocentric ways of thinking and how nonhuman animals have and are afforded political significance. He is currently part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project “From Feed the Birds to Do Not Feed the Animals.”

Rivke Jaffe is Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Amsterdam. Connecting geography, anthropology and cultural studies, her research focuses primarily on intersections of the urban and the political. She is specifically interested in how urban inequalities are mediated, reproduced and transformed in more-than-human ways, by nonhuman entities from digital technologies to animals. Her current work studies security dogs in Kingston, Jamaica.