After the ‘king of beasts’: Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon

Lorimer, Jamie; Whatmore, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2008.11.002

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“…It is here that I believe my paper adds to much work on affective and emotional geographies and literature on race and nature, in particular that of Moore and colleagues. The latter understand 'political articulations' as 'assemblages of institutions, apparatuses, practices, and discourses' (Donald Moore et al, 2003: 4) and through a focus on these assemblages emphasise, as does much of the 'more-than-human' affective geographies literature (Lorimer, 2015;Lorimer and Whatmore, 2009;Thrift, 2004), the fluidities, contingencies and hybridities in the politics of race, nature, affect and violence.…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Rhino poaching is out of control!’ Violence, race and the politics of hysteria in online conservation

Büscher

2016

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The rhino-poaching crisis in South Africa, according to many concerned citizens, conservation organisations and governments, is 'out of control'. With over 1000 rhinos poached in each of 2013, 2014 and 2015, the crisis has triggered a massive response, much of which heavily depends on online tools to raise funds and awareness. The paper analyses emotive discourses and imaginaries as part of dominant online responses to the rhino-poaching crisis and found that these are predominantly espoused by whites and show a worrying penchant towards (extreme) violence. Building on a theorisation of the links between race, nature, affect and control, the paper hypothesises that these responses reflect a 'politics of hysteria'. This politics captures the employment of affective and emotive expressions as a way to demand control over a situation 'out of control' in the context of historical and contemporary South African political economies of racial inequality. And as these expressions often tend towards exaggerated or extreme violence, they become potent forms of political mobilisation and intervention. New media are a crucial ingredient of this potency, and the paper concludes that this opens up important new questions about the relations between race, nature and violence.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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‘Rhino poaching is out of control!’ Violence, race and the politics of hysteria in online conservation

Büscher

2016

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“…Striving for affective engagements with animals through empirical investigations is admittedly fraught with difficulties given their speculative nature, lack of scientific evidence, anthropomorphic excessiveness, logistic hurdles and methodological challenge (Wolch 2002;Lorimer and Whatmore 2009). Indeed consideration of animal standpoint calls into question how their subjective views may be articulated as they are unable to share their views with humans (Donovan 2006).…”

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“…affects, emotions, lived experiences) previously excluded from animal-based methodological protocols (Lorimer and Whatmore 2009). affects, emotions, lived experiences) previously excluded from animal-based methodological protocols (Lorimer and Whatmore 2009).…”

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The Gender, Place and Culture Jan Monk Distinguished Annual Lecture: Feminism and animals: exploring interspecies relations through intersectionality, performativity and standpoint

Hovorka

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article explores the ways and extent to which feminism helps investigate interspecies relations and the lives of animals in academic scholarship. It argues that animals need feminism. Indeed feminists are well suited and positioned to take on questions of and issues related to animal lives through key theoretical ideas and methodological approaches, namely intersectionality, performativity and standpoint. Extending such ideas and approaches to animal subjects fills gaps in animal studies literature and generates invaluable insights on the fundamental workings of power in society and the implications for both humans and animals. The article also argues that feminism should embrace animals and animal scholarship. Doing so generates new insights on societal relations of power and extends existing feminist boundaries regarding whose knowledge counts and how it is counted. Ultimately, an enhanced feminism-animal dialogue generates geographical knowledge that is comprehensive and reflective of the interrelatedness of all beings that shape individual, institutional and ideological realms.

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“…The critical examination o f how histories o f ordering hum an-elephant landscapes proceeded through modernist processes o f purification and inversion add a geographical sensibility to writings on environmental history (Gadgil and Guha, 1992;Rangarajan, 1999). Foregrounding the voices o f the subaltern, and emphasising the political economies o f resource use, speaks to other histories o f human-elephant relations centred on colonial figures and institutions (Lorimer and Whatmore, 2009;Sivasundaram, 2005). More critically, the emphasis on translations brings in new perspectives on writing (post)colonial histories from the archives.…”

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Bio-Geo-Graphy: Landscape, Dwelling, and the Political Ecology of Human-Elephant Relations

Barua

2014

Environ Plan D

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The relation between the bio and the geo has been amongst geography's most enduring concerns. This paper contributes to ongoing attempts in human geography to politicise the dynamics and distribution of life. Drawing upon postcolonial environmental history, animal ecology, and more-than-human geography, the paper examines how humans and elephants cohabit with and against the grain of cartographic design. Through fieldwork in northeast India, it develops a 'dwelt political ecology' that reanimates landscape as a dwelt achievement whilst remaining sensitive to postcolonial histories and subaltern concerns. The paper conceptualises and deploys a methodology of 'tracking' through which archival material, elephant ecology, and voices of the marginalised can be integrated and mapped. It concludes by discussing the implications of this work for fostering new conversations between more-than-human geography and subaltern political ecology.

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After the ‘king of beasts’: Samuel Baker and the embodied historical geographies of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon

Cited by 49 publications

References 10 publications

‘Rhino poaching is out of control!’ Violence, race and the politics of hysteria in online conservation

‘Rhino poaching is out of control!’ Violence, race and the politics of hysteria in online conservation

The Gender, Place and Culture Jan Monk Distinguished Annual Lecture: Feminism and animals: exploring interspecies relations through intersectionality, performativity and standpoint

Bio-Geo-Graphy: Landscape, Dwelling, and the Political Ecology of Human-Elephant Relations

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