Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds - Hardcover

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. A feminist historian of the British Empire whose work has focused on women, gender, race and intersectional approaches, she is the author of six monographs and many edited collections including (with Renisa Mawani) Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (2020).

Renisa Mawani is Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories and Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Canada, located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam peoples. She is the author of Colonial Proximities (2009) and Across Oceans of Law (2018), which was a finalist for the U.K. Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize (2020) and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History (2020). With Antoinette Burton, she is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (2020).

Samantha Frost is Professor of political theory in the Department of Political Science, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Contemporary Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of Biocultural Creatures: Toward A New Theory of the Human (2016), which elucidates the conceptual significance of the plasticity of the biological body.