[Review] Kaori Nagai, editor. Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories. Animalibus of Animals and Cultures Series, General Editor Nigel Rothfels. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 229 pp, ISBN 9780271095370.
Year: 2024
Type: book-review
Abstract: Two pigs stand stolidly onboard ship in an early twentieth century photograph on the cover of Maritime Animals.At liberty, they face separate ways and seem unfazed by their location next to a bollard, but no sustenance for them is evident and they can only be commodities, a living meat supply for the helmeted men out of focus in the background.Maritime Animals shows that for more-than-human animals there has never been any benefit to being transported in ships.Drafted into colonial projects they were rendered specimens, dead or living, 'livestock' for new colonial settlements, a means of transport like sled dogs.Horses were deployed as war machines
Source: Animal studies journal
DOI: 10.14453/asj.1529
Author: Wendy Woodward
Institution: University of the Western Cape
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405268811