Meat, mercy, morality animals and humanitarianism in colonial Bengal, 1850-1920
Samanta, Samiparna
Meat, mercy, morality animals and humanitarianism in colonial Bengal, 1850-1920 Samiparna Samanta - First edition. - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2021 - 1 online resource (288 pages) illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online .
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This work disentangles complex discourses around humanitarianism to understand the nature of British colonialism in India. It contends that the colonial project of animal protection in late nineteenth-century Bengal mirrored an irony. Emerging notions of public health and debates on cruelty against animals exposed the disjunction between the claims of a benevolent Empire and a powerful imperial reality where the state constantly sought to discipline its subjects-both human and nonhuman. Centred around stories of animals as diseased, eaten, and overworked, the book shows how such contests over appropriate measures for controlling animals became part of wider discussions surrounding environmental ethics, diet, sanitation, and the politics of race and class.
9780190993948
10.1093/oso/9780190129132.001.0001 doi
1850-1920
Humanitarismus
Fleisch
Tiere
Tierschutz
Schlachtung
Kolonialismus
Bengalen
Meat, mercy, morality animals and humanitarianism in colonial Bengal, 1850-1920 Samiparna Samanta - First edition. - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2021 - 1 online resource (288 pages) illustrations (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online .
E-Book / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
This work disentangles complex discourses around humanitarianism to understand the nature of British colonialism in India. It contends that the colonial project of animal protection in late nineteenth-century Bengal mirrored an irony. Emerging notions of public health and debates on cruelty against animals exposed the disjunction between the claims of a benevolent Empire and a powerful imperial reality where the state constantly sought to discipline its subjects-both human and nonhuman. Centred around stories of animals as diseased, eaten, and overworked, the book shows how such contests over appropriate measures for controlling animals became part of wider discussions surrounding environmental ethics, diet, sanitation, and the politics of race and class.
9780190993948
10.1093/oso/9780190129132.001.0001 doi
1850-1920
Humanitarismus
Fleisch
Tiere
Tierschutz
Schlachtung
Kolonialismus
Bengalen