Ian Jared Miller is assistant professor in the Department of History at Harvard University.
发表于2024-12-22
The Nature of the Beasts 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 日本 环境史 环境 科学史 历史 动物 动物史 英文版
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.
如果这是2000年的书确实不错,但是2013年还在讲现代性建构了人和自然的区别云云……
评分看第四章都要看哭了..分析和理論非常緊密...
评分反倒是战后的部分写得好
评分反倒是战后的部分写得好
评分看第四章都要看哭了..分析和理論非常緊密...
The Nature of the Beasts 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书