... that complicated and multifaceted environmental phenomena can be reduced to fast, simple, evocative, invasive narratives that percolate through science, legislation, policy and civic action, and to examine how these narratives can drown out rather than open up possibilities for novel social-ecological engagements...

... , September 8 , 2012 . www.theguardian.com/money/2012/sep/08/japanese-knotweed-house-sale . Coates Peter . American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species: Strangers on the Land . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2006 . Coates Peter . Red and Grey: Toward a Natural...

... though the methods employed can be destructive and long-term success is often limited. Building on recent work critiquing categorical approaches to invasive species management, we argue that such campaigns obscure not only the underlying conditions but also the ongoing production of plant invasiveness...

... mentioned by Shakespeare. This article uses the methods of literary history to investigate this popular anecdote. Today starlings are much despised as an invasive species that displaces native birds and does almost a billion dollars worth of damage to agriculture annually. Because of the starling’s pest...

...Jonathan L. Clark Abstract Although philosophers have examined the ethics of invasive species management, there has been little research approaching this topic from a descriptive, ethnographic perspective. In this article I examine how invasive species managers think about the moral status...

...Laura A. Ogden Abstract For decades the role of invasive species has been central to discussions of anthropogenic loss and change. Conceptual debates over whether “native” and “invasive” species are useful to our understanding of dynamic processes of world making have significantly challenged...

...Fernando Varela Abstract The myxoma virus (MYXV) was used in Australia in 1950 to control, albeit temporarily, the overpopulation of the invasive European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ). A different strand of the virus was released in France two years later, resulting in the drastic decline...

... on by the past and continuing dispossession of Aboriginal people from their homelands. 4 Related to this is another set of anxieties; those of foreign invasion, particularly by non-European, non-Anglo “others.” This has created “a hierarchy of cultural belonging.” 5 In Australia, this is tied to a history...

... of English at Allegheny College, for “Shakespeare’s Starlings: Literary History and the Fictions of Invasiveness,” which appeared in Environmental Humanities in November 2021 (vol. 13, no. 2). The tale of Eugene Schieffelin introducing all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to the United States...

... and government bodies who see the free-living pig as a prolific pest and an invasive species highly destructive to economies and environments. Culling initiatives are supported by veterinary and ecological scientific literature that predominantly focuses on the negative impacts of this porcine population...

... are welcomed: “nonnative invasive” species that make their own connections, such as the eastern grays in England, become targets for discipline, expulsion, and death. 2 Connectivity is a place-holder that seeks to capture these multiple forms of multispecies mobility. 3 It is normatively charged...

... , and Sagan Dorion . Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species . New York : Basic Books , 2003 . Pooley Simon . “ The Entangled Relations of Humans and Nile Crocodiles in Africa, c.1840-1992 .” Environment and History ( 2015 , in press). Pooley Simon . “ Invasion...

.... “ Uncharismatic Invasives .” Environmental Humanities 6 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 29 – 52 . Lorimer Jamie . “ Nonhuman Charisma .” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 25 , no. 5 ( 2007 ): 911 – 32 . Quammen David . “ Old Ingenuous Introduction: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles...

..., where it is traditionally (and ironically) screened after the last plane or ship departs leaving the wintering crew—like the men in the film—physically isolated for several months of darkness. Carpenter’s version of the story self-consciously emphasizes the alien’s invasive and disease-like qualities...

..., and Society 10 ( 2014 ): 79 - 86 . Nagy Kelsey and Johnson Phillip David III eds. Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species . Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Steffen Will , Grinevald Jacques...

... . “ Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation .” Conservation and Society 9 , no. 4 ( 2011 ): 286 - 98 . 1 Thom van Dooren, Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). 2 The term...

... [ invasive species ] ahistorically assumes the previous existence of a static biota without intruders, in which relations among the constituent species were balanced, if not harmonious” (“Invasion/Invasive,” 173). 56. Royal Veterinary College, “European Origins for Fungus Killing Millions of North...

..., because raccoons respond by adapting to our invasion. We also modify ecosystems through raccoon cull programs in response to disease panics. Yet, studies show that this population reduction strategy “may be insufficient to control the spread of infectious disease in mesopredators.” James C. Beasley...

..., it is as communities that plants contribute to place making. 46 In their study of invasive plant eradication in Australia, Atchison and Head explore how plant bodies—their form—challenge human-centered understandings of a body and underline the importance of considering the relationship between the individual plant...

..., apple, pear, and plum trees, which also accommodates an invasive species, a tree of heaven. 10 For Stoetzer, this constituted a “ruderal ecology,” a community that emerges spontaneously in disturbed environments. Mestiza and Indigenous thinkers have explored the possibility of agency in edges...