Science, Law and the Raj: Cultural Fields of Fish(y) Fact

IF 0.8 3区 历史学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and History Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI:10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903579
Aarthi Sridhar
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Nineteenth century fact-making in British India was a cultural endeavour shared among its diverse colonial experts. Through a critical sociological reading of archival documents and official records, this paper contributes to aquatic-marine historiography by unpacking utterances and deeds of irrigation engineers, pisciculture proponents, naturalists and administrators regarding the facts of ‘injury to fish supplies’ and the preservation of these supplies by law. It argues that early scientific fisheries investigation and their culmination in the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 were not the result of a successful separation of science and politics, or of fact from interest. Rather, colonial cultures of fact-making were forged in the interplay of the imperial utilitarianism and hybridity inherent to rule-making in the colony, which renders early fisheries science in India as a field of postcolonial politics by other means.
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科学、法律和王室:鱼(y)事实的文化领域
19 世纪英属印度的事实决策是不同殖民地专家共同的文化努力。通过对档案文件和官方记录进行批判性的社会学解读,本文解读了灌溉工程师、养鱼业支持者、博物学家和管理者关于 "鱼类供应受损 "事实的言论和行为,并通过法律保护这些供应,从而为水生海洋史学做出了贡献。该书认为,早期的科学渔业调查及其在 1897 年《印度渔业法》中的最终结果并不是科学与政治或事实与利益成功分离的结果。相反,殖民地的事实制定文化是在帝国功利主义和殖民地规则制定所固有的混合性相互作用中形成的,这使得印度早期的渔业科学成为以其他方式进行的后殖民政治的一个领域。
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期刊介绍: Environment and History is an interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems. Articles appearing in Environment and History are abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life, British Humanities Index, CAB Abstracts, Environment Abstracts, Environmental Policy Abstracts, Forestry Abstracts, Geo Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, History Journals Guide, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Landscape Research Extra, Referativnyi Zhurnal, Rural Sociology Abstracts, Social Sciences in Forestry and World Agricultural Economics.
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