Book ID: CBB982113508

Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (2020)

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Burton, Antoinette (Editor)
Mawani, Renisa (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 248
Language: English

From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—domestic, feral, predatory, and mythical—whose relationship to imperial authorities and settler colonists reveals how the presumed racial supremacy of Europeans underwrote the history of Western imperialism. Victorian imperial authorities, adventurers, and colonists used animals as companions, military transportation, agricultural laborers, food sources, and status symbols. They also overhunted and destroyed ecosystems, laying the groundwork for what has come to be known as climate change. At the same time, animals such as lions, tigers, and mosquitoes interfered in the empire's racial, gendered, and political aspirations by challenging the imperial project’s sense of inevitability. Unconventional and innovative in form and approach, Animalia invites new ways to consider the consequences of imperial power by demonstrating how the politics of empire—in its racial, gendered, and sexualized forms—played out in multispecies relations across jurisdictions under British imperial control. Contributors. Neel Ahuja, Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, Peter Hansen, Isabel Hofmeyr, Anna Jacobs, Daniel Heath Justice, Dane Kennedy, Jagjeet Lally, Krista Maglen, Amy E. Martin, Renisa Mawani, Heidi J. Nast, Michael A. Osborne, Harriet Ritvo, George Robb, Jonathan Saha, Sandra Swart, Angela Thompsell

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Authors & Contributors
Morgan J. Robinson
Mr Anthony C. Cartwright
Antoine Traisnel
Julio Decker
Barnard, Timothy P.
Bryant, Raymond L
Concepts
Imperialism
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
Science and race
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Africa
United States
India
Óman
Singapore
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