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More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean's history.
Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling
offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and
temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific.
The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a
wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological
ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies,
and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously
hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the
contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the
industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked
second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth
century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling
histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also
reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous
peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and
South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives
and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of
commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of
mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to
nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean
where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth
and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors,
providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
In contrast to past studies that focus narrowly on war and
massacre, treat Native peoples as victims, and consign violence
safely to the past, this interdisciplinary collection of essays
opens up important new perspectives. While recognizing the long
history of genocidal violence against Indigenous peoples, the
contributors emphasize the agency of individuals and communities in
genocide's aftermath and provide historical and contemporary
examples of activism, resistance, identity formation, historical
memory, resilience, and healing. The collection also expands the
scope of violence by examining the eyewitness testimony of women
and children who survived violence, the role of Indigenous
self-determination and governance in inciting violence against
women, and settler colonialism's promotion of cultural erasure and
environmental destruction.By including contributions on Indigenous
peoples in the United States, Canada, the Pacific, Greenland,
SApmi, and Latin America, the volume breaks down nation-state and
European imperial boundaries to show the value of global Indigenous
frameworks. Connecting the past to the present, this book confronts
violence as an ongoing problem and identifies projects that
mitigate and push back against it.
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