ABSTRACT Recent work in political ecology and more-than-human geography has highlighted the foundational role that nonhumans play in actively shaping politics. More than simply resources over which humans wage political battles, this work contends that nonhumans must be considered political actors in their own right. Building on this research, this paper examines a political-economic crisis in the Dominion of Newfoundland: the bank crash of 1894. I demonstrate how this ostensibly political and economic crisis was also critically ecological. I examine how it was shaped by the material properties of saltfish, as both dead codfish and a living microbial community. This paper contributes to Atlantic studies by emphasizing the nonhuman agency of fish and ocean-space in the constitution of maritime political economies.

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1894年黑色星期一：纽芬兰的咸鱼，信用和政治生态

摘要最近在政治生态学和非人文地理学方面的工作凸显了非人在积极塑造政治中的基础作用。这项工作不仅是人类发动政治斗争的资源，还主张非人类必须被视为自身的政治角色。在这项研究的基础上，本文考察了纽芬兰自治区的政治经济危机：1894年的银行倒闭。我证明了这种表面上的政治和经济危机也很关键。我研究了咸鱼和活的微生物群落的咸鱼的材料特性如何塑造咸鱼的形状。本文通过在海洋政治经济体系中强调鱼类和海洋空间的非人类活动，为大西洋研究做出了贡献。