Colonizing Animals
Colonizing Animals
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殖民动物
DOI：
10.1017/9781108990240
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发表时间：
2021
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Saha J
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Saha J
动物对英国殖民缅甸至关重要。在这本19世纪初至1942年英帝国主义在缅甸的开创性历史中，乔纳森·萨哈认为，动物受到殖民征服的影响和改变。通过研究缅甸民族主义者的著作和底层群体的经历，他还展示了缅甸反殖民主义者是如何动员动物反对帝国统治的。萨哈展示了动物——如大象、鳄鱼和老鼠——是从未完全受人类控制的重要角色，揭示了英国殖民主义如何改变缅甸的生态环境，并与动物建立了新的关系。《殖民动物》向读者介绍了一种创新的历史方法，用于探索帝国过去的物种间关系，使用创新的概念来研究后殖民理论和批判性动物研究的物种间帝国。
Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the writings of Burmese nationalists and the experiences of subaltern groups, he also shows how animals were mobilized by Burmese anticolonial activists in opposition to imperial rule. In demonstrating how animals-such as elephants, crocodiles, and rats-were important actors never fully under the control of humans, Saha uncovers a history of how British colonialism transformed ecologies and fostered new relationships with animals in Myanmar. Colonizing Animals introduces the reader to an innovative historical methodology for exploring interspecies relationships in the imperial past, using innovative concepts for studying interspecies empires that draw on postcolonial theory and critical animal studies.