1st Edition

More-Than-Human Diasporas Topologies of Empire, Settler Colonialism, Slavery

By Joseph Pugliese Copyright 2025
282 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 51 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Pugliese’s More‑Than‑Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more‑than‑human diasporic entities—such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles—have functioned as agents within the context of empire, settler colonialism and a largely effaced history of Mediterranean enslavement, a history that pre‑existed and then coincided with the... Read more

Introduction. 1 Water 2 Clay 3 Bark Gunyahs and Stone Temples 4 Sandstone 5 Marble and Bronze

6 Stone Watchtowers 7 “Slave Figs” 8 Orange-Lemon Tree 9 Agave and Prickly Pear Cactus

10 Eucalyptus

Biography

Joseph Pugliese is Professor of Cultural Studies, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His monograph, Biopolitics of the More‑Than‑Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (2020), was awarded the 2022 Humanities Institute Book Award, presented by the Humanities Institute, Arizona State University, USA.