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... 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...

... to extirpate once it has become established. In Massachusetts, the Japanese knotweed is one of sixty-six species that have been designated “invasive” by the Massachusetts Invasive Plant Advisory Group (a nonprofit organization that works in coordination with state and federal agencies). Like the other sixty...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

..., and how his subsequent writing portrayed the starling introduction as misguided. Finally, they reveal the influence of this literature on framing the starling as an invasive pest. The tale of Eugene Schieffelin introducing all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to the United States in the late...

... 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 a scientific decision: Simon Pooley, “Invasion of the Crocodiles,” in Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities, ed. Iain McCalman and Jodi Frawley (Abingdon: Routledge Environmental Humanities, 2014), 239-255. 7 The Red List categories are: extinct; extinct in the wild...

.... “ 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...

... of darkness. Carpenter’s version of the story self-consciously emphasizes the alien’s invasive and disease-like qualities: during the blood test scene, a vintage poster on the wall of the base warns against venereal disease; 19 in another scene, the chief biologist runs a computer simulation of the impact...

... Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species . Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Steffen Will , Grinevald Jacques , Crutzen Paul and McNeill John . “ The Anthropocene: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives...

...; “Authentic Crows: Identity, Captivity and Emergent Forms of Life,” Theory, Culture and Society (forthcoming). 18 Thom van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation,” Conservation and Society 9, no. 4 (2011); “A Day with Crows.” I have often...

... these dominant relations have convinced Kānaka fisherpeople that Hawaiian monk seals constitute an invasive species introduced by colonialists to consume fish and eradicate their livelihoods. A few individuals have even killed endangered monk seals, and, in at least one incident, a man was sent to prison. 33...

... [ 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...

... their brain development and perhaps even sending them down a new evolutionary path.” 11 Yet, in most North American cities, narratives abound of raccoons as invasive and feral species. 12 Raccoons' intelligence has always been recognized in North America Indigenous cosmologies that assume...

..., 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...