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From debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART 1: LOYAL COMPANIONS, TASTY FOOD, DISTINGUISHED ATHLETES, POLITICAL BEINGS
1. A Meaty Colony: Nigerians and the Animals They Ate
2. The Living Machines of Imperialism: Animal Aesthetics, Imperial Spectacle, and the Political Economy of the Horse and Donkey
3. “Dogs Are the Most Useful Animals”: A Canine History of Colonial Nigeria
4. The Nigerian Political Zoo: Animal Art, Modernism, and the Visual Narrative of Nation Building
PART 2: PATHOLOGY, EMPATHY, ANXIETY
5. “Beware of Dogs”: Rabies and the Elastic Geographies of Fear
6. The Lion King in the Cage: Nature, Wildlife Conservation, and the Modern Zoo
7. “Let Us Be Kind to Our Dumb Friends”: Animal Cruelty in the Discourse of Colonial Modernity'
8. “A Great Evil Ritual Murder”: The Save-the-Nigerian-Horse-and-Donkey Campaign
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Saheed Aderinto is a professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Florida International University. He is the author of Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958.
Summary
From debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.
