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发表于2024-12-25
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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—but also as a site for the propagation of a new “natural” order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.
Ian Jared Miller is assistant professor in the Department of History at Harvard University.
the manufactured ecology
评分不是仅仅关于动物园的书,讨论的主题是日本生态现代性。普林斯顿的日本史教授Federico Marcon也是做的环境史。可见环境史近年来在东亚研究领域里的发展态势之猛
评分动物园如何能够成为沟通人,自然,动物之间的桥料,以及这种沟通如何通过现代性的文化和政治建设实现。可是这种对自然的割裂,控制,和展示本身是现代性的一部分,更是十九世纪以降帝国政治文化的一部分。
评分the manufactured ecology
评分虽然内容和问题挺有意思但xxx modernity这种词真的看得要吐了。。。
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The Nature of the Beasts pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024