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...Rohan Deb Roy The themed section “Nonhuman Empires” contributes to a critique of anthropocentrism in the field of imperial history. It reveals the variety of ways in which the historical trajectories of nonhuman animals and empires both intersected and informed one another. Beyond merely...

...Megnaa Mehtta Abstract The current ecological crisis and its accompanying environmental consciousness has prodded many to reject Western dualism and instead embrace animism. Taking the Sundarbans forests of India as a starting point, the author shows how several animated, nonhuman agents...

...Mayanthi Fernando Abstract If secularity ushered in the notion of humans as buffered subjects immune to nonhuman agents, recent attempts to recognize the agency of nonhumans and to see humans as always in relation to nonhumans—the natureculture turn—may be understood as both a posthumanist...

... and 1970s, biologists began to argue that conservation was more than a “numbers game”; it also required taking into account nonhuman traditions and social structures. The theory of biological territoriality thus became a conceptual tool for asserting nonhuman claims to land, often in competition with human...

...Sujit Sivasundaram By reconsidering how race operates at the intersection of the human-animal divide, this essay looks back on the paths that have been opened by the special section “Nonhuman Empires.” Rather than interrogating the literary entanglement of animality and race, the argument considers...

... on exchange are unavoidable when situated within historicity—analyses that emerged in the colonial period as a central way to understand Sikh literary production. Such a grasp on Punjab, the Sikh tradition, and historicity, however, is loosened when we consider the nonhuman. The nonhuman, in other words...

...Nida Rehman Abstract This article explores plants, seeds, soils, and other nonhuman actors as archival and architectural agents within the history of Lahore's urban landscape, as seen from the ground. It traces the halting efforts of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab to enact regional...

... of three different interlocutors with varying stakes in the chickens’ disappearance. In juxtaposing these three stories, the author argues that the recognition of and engagement with nonhumans in our field sites necessitates reflecting on the limits of what we (can) know, how we know, unknowability...

...Anne-Marie McManus Abstract Two major thinkers of anti-colonialism in Algeria—Kateb Yacine, author of the novel Nedjma (1956), and Frantz Fanon—described the impacts of colonial violence through figures of petrification that blur the border between human and nonhuman. Their works ground...

... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 This issue opens with the special section “Other Than Human: Rethinking Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia,” edited by Rajbir Singh Judge and Parama Roy, which brings back to the fore a conversation on human–nonhuman interaction...

... one that is incommensurable rather than compatible with protocols of legibility and recognition, as well as the calculations these involve. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 nature nonhuman recognition secularity translation...

... of infrastructure-in-the-making sheds light on another, conceptual alliance. On one end, “thing theorists” argue for an understanding of infrastructures’ nonhuman, agentive capacity to assemble disparate people, things, and institutions. On the other end, political commentators propose, as many did, that meetings...

... is the question of who belongs and what it means to belong in terms of moral and material access to resources. This essay further suggests that monkeys — the nonhuman actors in this story — play an important part in shaping the nature of these conversations about cultural meaning and belonging. Recognizing...

... children to wolves and ends in a missionary theology that claims wolf children as evidence of Christian grace and redemption. It underlines how unexpectedly significant a reckoning with the nonhuman was for evangelical theology and narrative in the colony, and how the narrative depended on trans-species...

...? In dialogue with the environmental humanities, this thematic section approaches human lives in embodied proximities to the nonhuman. It also relinquishes the need for storytelling to begin from a moment when annihilating violence has ceased, as though erasure could be safely contained in the past. Repetitive...

... of capitalism—one connecting wage labor exploitation with other human and nonhuman work—requires methods that do not prioritize what is visible. Rather than asking what X-ray images show diagnostically, this article charts how the creation of visibility and invisibility was a political act, a tactic of capital...

... to design and structure, aesthetics and affect, and the human and nonhuman in order to redefine the primary source. From the writings of a Sri Lankan architect, a capitol for a future Bangladesh, the princely state landscapes of a German-Indian planner, films of roads in Bhutan and Kashmir, gardens...

... of essays argued that the inordinate focus on I human actors and agency had precluded attention to nonhuman forces that shaped the conceptual and physical geographies of empire. This issue of the journal extends concerns with the shifting boundaries between human and non- human to consider...

... through which political movements construct possible futures—to understand the open-­ended dynamic of popular movements as these configure political resources for enacting futures anew. “Nonhuman Empires” revisits the link between liberalism and empire, but from the perspective of challenging...

... in that interpretation stands as a process of person- making. In short, the force that dwellings possess in urban environments such as Kuala Lumpur is located in the fact that they are often perceived as nonhuman persons capable of exerting certain forms of force proper to them within these envi- ronments. This claim...