This week in the seminar we read some of the scholarship of Jonathan Saha, an historian at the University of Leeds in the UK.
While I discuss his scholarship in the video, it is also important to note that Jonathan maintains a wonderful “online presence” through his blog, Colonizing Animals.
Here are the articles that we read:
Jonathan Saha, “Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma,” Cultural and Social History (Published online: 19 May 2017), 1-16.
_____, “Colonising Elephants: Animal Agency, Undead Capital and Imperial Science in British Burma,” British Journal for the History of Science: Themes (Published online: 24 April 2017). 1-21.
_____, “Murder at London Zoo: Late Colonial Sympathy in Interwar Britain,” American Historical Review Vol. 121, No. 5 (2016): 1468-1491.
_____, “Milk to Mandalay: Dairy Consumption, Animal History and the Political Geography of Colonial Burma,” Journal of Historical Geography Vol. 54 (2016): 1-12.
_____, “Among the Beasts of Burma: Animals and the Politics of Colonial Sensibilities, c.1840-1950,” Journal of Social History Vol. 48, No. 4 (2015): 910-93.
Jonathan Saha and Simon Potter, “Global History, Imperial History and Connected Histories of Empire,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Vol. 16, No. 1 (2015): np.
____, “Colonization, Criminalization, and Complicity: Policing Gambling in Burma, c.1880-1920,” South East Asia Research Vol. 21, No. 4 (2013): 655-672.
Jonathan Saha, “Madness and the Making of a Colonial Order in Burma,” Modern Asian Studies Vol. 47, No. 2 (2013): 406-435.
_____, “A Mockery of Justice? Colonial Law, the Everyday State, and Village Politics in the Burma Delta, c.1890-1910,” Past & Present Vol. 217 (2012): 187-212.
_____, “‘Uncivilized Practitioners’: Medical Subordinates, Medico-Legal Evidence and Misconduct in Burma, 1875-1907,” South East Asia Research Vol. 20, No. 3 (2012): 423-443.
_____, “Histories of Everyday Violence in British India,” History Compass Vol. 9, No. 11 (2011): 844-853.
_____, “The Male State: Colonialism, Corruption and Rape Investigations in the Irrawaddy Delta, c. 1900,” The Indian Economic & Social History Review Vol. 47, No. 3 (2010): 343-376.