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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World
Beteiligte:
Ahuja, Neel
Erschienen:
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2009
Erschienen in:
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 124 (2009) 2, Seite 556-563
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1632/pmla.2009.124.2.556
ISSN:
0030-8129;
1938-1530
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Beschreibung:
Histories of race and empire have shaped the field imaginary of species studies from its inception. Politically, the field's animal-activist heritage models its critique on movements for racial justice. Historically, this move links to Enlightenment conceptions of animals that relied on the same objectifying methods used to represent slaves and the poor: sentimentality, representations of cruelty, humane manifestos. Epistemologically, the taxonomic tools that name the objects of analysis have been deployed to define non-Europeans as subspecies or independent species. Geographically, the field's intellectual production is centered in the United States, Australia, and Britain, tied to neocolonial institutions of animal advocacy, and slow in recognizing internal critiques of animal and ecological movements by activists of color.