... 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...

... 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...

...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 of the...

... 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...

... 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...

... connectivities 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...

... . “ Invasion of the Crocodiles .” In Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities , edited by McCalman Iain and Frawley Jodi , 239 - 255 . Abingdon : Routledge Environmental Humanities , 2014 . Reiser Alison . The Case of the Green Turtle: An Uncensored History of...

... Etiquette: Toward an Ethics-Based Epistemology .” Environmental Ethics 21 , no. 2 ( 1999 ): 115 – 34 . Clark Jonathan L. “ Uncharismatic Invasives .” Environmental Humanities 6 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 29 – 52 . Lorimer Jamie . “ Nonhuman Charisma .” Environment and Planning D...

... Restoration of Urban Native Grasslands in Australia .” Emotion, Space, 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...

...; “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...

... Things documentary “Raccoon Nation,” host David Suzuki asks whether, in co-habiting with raccoons, we are actually “pushing 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...

... an invasion; a breaching of boundaries. Infection is an event; a becoming with. Infection is a “fluctuation” in the present order of things. Infection takes place in the urinary tract, the blood, the lung, and the computer. It also takes place in the industrial hen house, the pharmaceutical...

... vocabulary.” 4 That call has been taken up explicitly with the section titled Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities, which through this issue has published essays on twenty-nine words or concepts valuable for environmental humanities. From belonging to invasive , hope to sacrifice , the...

... open planetary ecosystem emulating all the functions of the biosphere of Earth to allow for human habitability. 63 I am not picturing terraforming in its original understanding as “ecocolonization” (although the arrival of invasive species and the colonization of polar environments by terrestrial...

... ( 2008 ): 111 – 18 . doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2008.00016.x . Lambert Robert A. “ Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Return of the Native ‘Aliens’ and the (re)Wilding of Britain’s Skies .” In Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals: Human Perceptions, Attitudes, and Approaches to...

... Randy . “ Foreword .” In Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species , edited by Nagy Kelsey and Johnson Phillip David III , xi - xiii . Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 . Mbembe Achille . “ Necropolitics...

... that is so old and so artificial that it was already ancient at the time of the Roman invasion of Gaul? Also, I don't believe in the harmony of nature and I am probably the only intellectual to have written a book with the subtitle “the love of technology.” But if I cite this tale, it is also because I...

... invasive technologies remain key to tracing and discovering their routes—but every capture entails risk to the bird, and the risk persists beyond capture or release, inherent in the material heft of surveillance. As this surveillance extends beyond the line of sight, so too does the potential threat it...