More-Than-Human Diasporas

Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery

Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University, Australia)

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Routledge
28 October 2024

Social & cultural history; Colonialism & imperialism; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Slavery & abolition of slavery; Cultural studies

Pugliese’s More‑Than‑Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more‑than‑human diasporic entities—such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles—have functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that pre‑existed and then coincided with the Atlantic slave trade. This book traces, for example, the diasporic travels of the eucalyptus from Indigenous Country to Joseph Banks’ botanical collection in London and then onto a grand English‑style garden in Southern Italy which was built on the historically effaced labour of enslaved people.

By deploying techniques of historical recovery, this book brings to light otherwise buried histories, thereby demonstrating the pivotal role of Mediterranean enslavement in the shaping of Italian society and culture. This book develops a topological understanding of cultural history to account for the complex spatio‑temporal effects that connect seemingly disparate times, spaces and more‑than‑human entities within networks of relationality. In this innovative scholarly work, more‑than‑human diasporic entities function as conceptual keys to histories which would otherwise remain hidden, thereby revealing desubjugated knowledges which reconfigure anthropocentric histories and further the process of decolonisation.

This book will be of interest to readers interested in transnational and local histories of empire, settler colonialism and slavery.

By: Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781032497242
ISBN 10: 1032497246
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 28 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction. 1 Water 2 Clay 3 Gunyah Huts and Stone Temples 4 Sandstone 5 Marble and 6 Stone Watchtowers 7 “Slave Figs” 8 Orange-Lemon Tree 9 Agave and Prickly Pear Cactus 10 Eucalyptus

Joseph Pugliese is Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His monograph, Biopolitics of the More‑Than‑Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (2020), was awarded the 2022 Humanities Institute Book Award, presented by the Humanities Institute, Arizona State University, USA.