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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 63–85.
Published: 01 May 2018
...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...
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Environmental Humanities (2015) 6 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 May 2015
...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...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 301–322.
Published: 01 November 2021
... 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (2): 370–396.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 171–174.
Published: 01 May 2017
... 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 283–286.
Published: 01 May 2014
..., “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy for Killing for Conservation,” Conservation and Society 9, no. 4 (2011): 286-298. 8 See also, Ibid., 1-2. 7 Head, “Decentring 1788,” 3. 6 Lesley Head, “Decentring 1788: Beyond Biotic Nativeness,” Geographical Research 50...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 19–38.
Published: 01 July 2023
... fashion, I do not deny that currently in Australia there are other ways to speak about the place and identity of pigs apart from “feral.” Indeed, despite the efforts of invasive species campaigns, there are multiple, if marginal, ways of talking about and engaging free-living pigs. First Nation...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . “ 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 456–459.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 129–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
...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...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 309–330.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., colonialism and neoliberalism are ways of relating with land and water, relations that treat the earth as resource, dumping ground, and exploitable other. 32 In some cases these dominant relations have convinced Kānaka fisherpeople that Hawaiian monk seals constitute an invasive species introduced...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 164–167.
Published: 01 March 2023
... tells the story of a migrant gardener who started a vegetable patch in the geopolitical edge between East and West Germany. With time, he created a Berlin version of a Turkish gecekondu , a small orchard of apricot, apple, pear, and plum trees, which also accommodates an invasive species, a tree...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 370–387.
Published: 01 May 2020
... ): 17 – 25 . doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2016.12.005 . van Dooren Thom . “ Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds: An Ethical Taxonomy of Killing for Conservation .” Conservation and Society 9 , no. 4 ( 2011 ): 286 – 98 . Vines Emma . “ A Common Appeal: AngloBritish Nationalism...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 109–127.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., is headlined, “There Are Diseases Hidden in the Ice, and They Are Waking Up.” 67 On the other hand, warming temperatures enable the invasion of the continent by species that usually belong outside its space, entering either on their own or introduced by humans. This concern about invasive species has...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (2): 492–495.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of interest in the environmental humanities. Following in Quammen’s footsteps, 14 these researchers examine the moral status of creatures their cultures tell them to fear or loathe or simply ignore—the invasive species, the nuisance wildlife, the vermin and the pests, along with all those unfortunate...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (2): 470–474.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Invasive Species .” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40 , no. 3 ( 2015 ): 399 – 413 . Head Lesley , Atchison Jennifer , Phillips Catherine , and Buckingham Kathleen . “ Vegetal Politics: Belonging, Practices, and Places .” Social and Cultural Geography...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 398–417.
Published: 01 November 2017
... not picturing terraforming in its original understanding as “ecocolonization” (although the arrival of invasive species and the colonization of polar environments by terrestrial biota is accelerating). 64 I am talking more about a course of action that describes these almost imperceptible but relentless...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (1): 208–230.
Published: 01 March 2023
... veil. Some manifest as “invasive” species (e.g., grains, fruits, livestock). Interestingly, however, the douen choose not to eradicate these new lifeforms across the board. Instead, they work to incorporate these beings into native ecosystems and develop relationships with them such that they can...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 18–39.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., Slow Violence , 30. See also Cronon, “Why Edge Effects?” 13. O’Gorman, “Belonging,” 285. 14. See Lavau, “Nature/s of Belonging”; and van Dooren, “Invasive Species in Penguin Worlds.” See also Kennedy, Magic Mountains . 15. Chatterjee, Time for Tea , 77–78. 16. Sinha and Subba...
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