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Biocultural empire : new histories of imperial lifeworlds / edited by Antoinette Burton, Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Empire's Other HistoriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Edition: 1st editionDescription: 1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)ISBN:- 9781350454231
- 9781350451063
- 9781350451070
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Physical anthropology
- Imperialism
- Decolonization
- Natural history
- Impérialisme
- Ethnoarchéologie
- Anthropologie physique
- Impérialisme - Histoire
- Décolonisation
- Sciences naturelles
- ethnoarchaeology
- physical anthropology
- natural sciences
- Colonialism & imperialism
- General & world history
- Indigenous peoples
- Great Britain
- Grande-Bretagne - Colonies - Aspect social
- Internet Access
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Summary: Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire look like if reimagined as the effect of biocultural, chemical and cultural processes, rather than the result of effects by humans that have been visited upon cultural landscapes, fauna and biomes. In understanding the boundaries between human and nonhuman worlds as porous and open to mutual transformation, and foregrounding interspecies interactions, Biocultural Empire seeks to understand the conditions of imperial power, experience and knowledge as a remix of nature and culture. Bringing empires biocultural histories to the fore, it asks imperial historians to reckon with an interpretative framework which refuses the sovereignty and boundedness of the imperial subject by seeing it as inseparable from its social and ecological formations. Through this biocultural framework this collection highlights how relentlessly the human species bias of western liberal thought persists at the heart of imperial projects and their histories, and offers a new anti-colonial method that represents a significant intervention in the field of British imperial history.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of Illinois, USA and University of British Columbia, CanadaPPN: PPN: 1922672548Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Biocultural Empires as an Anti-colonial Method -- Very Like a Whale: Animal Metaphors and the Biocultural Imagination -- Biocultural Histories of the Black Anthropocene: Energy, Consumption, and Non-Human Worlds -- A Victorian Parliament of Animals; or, the Biocultural as Imperial Political Form -- Ganja and the Godhead: Plant Matter and the Sacral Binds of the Excise Principle in British India -- The Royal Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah: Human Difference and Biocultural Empire in the Nineteenth Century -- History in the Water(s): Water and Empire in North Americas Wet Centre -- Strangers, Difference and the Darkness of Empire: The HMB Endeavour in New Zealand -- Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene.
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