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  • 2 - Vital Resources

  • Jonathan Saha, Durham University
  • Book:
    Colonizing Animals
    Published online:
    29 October 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 51-82

  • Summary

    Focussing on elephants and oxen to uncover how they came to be fostered, mobilized, and employed as vital workers in Myanmar’s two major industries of timber extraction and rice cultivation, this chapter explores how both became framed as particular types of resources.

  • 1 - Valuing Animals

  • Jonathan Saha, Durham University
  • Book:
    Colonizing Animals
    Published online:
    29 October 2021
    Print publication:
    11 November 2021, pp 28-50

  • Summary

    Here I outline two crucial concepts that are returned to throughout the book. The first is the notion of ‘undead capital’, a concept that provides a lens to analyze the specific commodity form that working animals took in the colony. The second is an expanded understanding of colonial bio-politics, a politics that I argue served to render animals (including humans) into three states, namely, as subjects, as objects, and as abject. Together these concepts outline two key underpinning forces that shaped how animals came to be valued under colonial rule in Myanmar. In the first concept, this was through a process of valorisation as animal capital. In the second concept, this was through a governmentalizing evaluation of an animal.