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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