{"product_id":"biocultural-empire-new-histories-of-imperial-lifeworlds-9781350451056","title":"Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuman species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eby \u003c\/i\u003ehumans that have been visited \u003ci\u003eupon\u003c\/i\u003e cultural landscapes, fauna and biomes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn understanding the boundaries between human and nonhuman worlds as porous and open to mutual transformation, and foregrounding interspecies interactions, \u003ci\u003eBiocultural Empire \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to understand the conditions of imperial power, experience and knowledge as a remix of 'nature' and 'culture'. Bringing empire's '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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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, Canada.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntoinette Burton \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. A feminist historian of the British Empire whose work has focused on women, gender, race and intersectional approaches, she is the author of six monographs and many edited collections including (with Renisa Mawani) \u003ci\u003eAnimalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenisa Mawani\u003c\/b\u003e is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam peoples. She is the author of Colonial Proximities (2009) and Across Oceans of Law (2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020). With Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (2020). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Frost \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Contemporary Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBiocultural Creatures: Toward A New Theory of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), which elucidates the conceptual significance of the plasticity of the biological body.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51175189152018,"sku":"9781350451056","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f21cce2-70f4-43f2-817d-a07a8aa79b5d.jpg?v=1744288070","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/biocultural-empire-new-histories-of-imperial-lifeworlds-9781350451056","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}