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.... In this article we demonstrate the idea of invasive narratives through a case study of the ‘invasive alien species' (IAS) narrative in South Africa. We suggest that IAS reduces complex webs of ecological, biological, economic, and cultural relations to a simple ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ battle between easily...

..., there is a tendency to understand our own planet in unfamiliar terms, especially in astrobiology, where so-called analog sites and “extreme environments” provide clues about alien planets. © 2017 Istvan Praet and Juan Francisco Salazar 2017 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative...

... on alienation. There is increasing interest in different modes of nonhuman labor, recognizing how animals are put to work to produce value for capitalism. This provocation advances these debates by asking: If nonhuman animals can be recognized as laboring, and as alienated laborers, can they, like humans...

... on this comparison, the article argues that ideas of containment and contagion can have political connotations in an Antarctic context, to the extent that they are applied to particular groups of people in order to position them as “alien” to the Antarctic environment. The authors show that the recent media...

...Erin Despard; Michael Gallagher Abstract In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to management, even...

...-mountains on those islands. The contemporary landing of Asian money into Richmond, a financial offshore in concrete construction, depends, geophysically, on earlier moments in which Chinese-ness, as an alien labor force manipulated through racialized controls on wages, becomes a salient geophysical...

... the original work is cited and is not altered or transformed. Giant isopods are one of the star attractions in the Toba Aquarium, Japan. Under normal circumstances these crustaceans live at depth on the cold, dark ocean floor, scavenging flesh from dead fish and whales. Their alien appearance, as well...

... from distinguishing a priori between “professionals” and “amateurs.” But I do not include UFO enthusiasts and believers in alien abduction. That is not to say that the latter are unworthy of consideration; 6 given my focus on ultraviolet they simply fall outside the scope of this particular...

..., in Cosmos , astronomer Carl Sagan affirmed that finding evidence of alien life must set the limit to human exploration of space: “If there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” 1 This view remains popular...

..., in describing a planet as Earth-like and livable, this gesture extends the idea of environment beyond our planet but also recenters Earth as the measure for mattering in the universe. It celebrates the role of female scientists while also reinforcing problematic associations between nurturing mother and (alien...

... beyond Earth; think of the heliocentric worldview and early modern telescopic observations, and more recently, the studies of extremophiles on Earth and the discovery of thousands of exoplanets. An active search for artificial signals in space that might be proof of an intelligent alien civilization has...

..., present, and future. Alienation is perhaps the most logical reaction to sublime, inhuman timescales. Confronted by stretched-out temporal horizons, the human figure is marginalized, decentered as measure of all things. In this moment of temporal dislocation the environmental humanities have cohered...

... Corinne . When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2003 . Helmreich Stefan . Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2009 . Helmreich...

... the eradication of Selk’nam people from the park that now bears their name or development schemes that lead to deforestation (whether by loggers or by beavers). For the most part, an association with humans is what defines nonhuman life as alien or exotic, and this association with humans is by and large...

.... Bunn also argues, rightly, that Vonnegut’s assessment of modern technology hinges on its alienating, depersonalizing function and the resulting capacity to hinder communal interactions. Vonnegut’s portrayal of war aims to personalize the conflict. “Rather than viewing military campaigns in terms...

... and lethal individuation, an alien intentionality that would aim at me as in the case of an animal who, to defend itself, releases poison meant for a particular threatening target. Toxic materials massively fall on and pervade whatever and whomever crosses their innumerable paths. They hit “me” as though I...

... of late modernism’s relationship to nonhuman life. Looking closely at bell jars and Plath’s encounter with them through archival research and interviews with staff at Smith’s Lyman Conservatory, I show that Plath envisioned bell jars as sites of contingent productivity characterized by alienation...

... Condition . London : Routledge , 1997 . Paxson Heather , and Helmreich Stefan . “ The Perils and Promises of Microbial Abundance: Novel Natures and Model Ecosystems, from Artisanal Cheese to Alien Seas .” Social Studies of Science 44 , no. 2 ( 2014 ): 165 - 193 . Rabinow...

... consider our bodies. Binocular vision can be a type of specifically human prosthesis, for example. Haraway, “Situated Knowledges.” 7. Key research on knowing oceans through technoscientific means include Stefan Helmreich’s Alien Ocean , Nicole Starosielski’s The Undersea Network...

... ; for viscous porosity, see Tuana, “Viscous Porosity.” 12. Alaimo, Exposed ; Chen, Animacies ; DeSilvey, Curated Decay ; Oppermann, “Toxic Bodies and Alien Agencies”; van Dooren, Flight Ways. 13. Rose and van Dooren, “Unloved Others.” 14. Haraway, “Manifesto for Cyborgs”; Haraway...