of field-based invasive species work in the Hudson Valley must be completed during this brief summer sprint, and so there I was, alongside a conservation intern from a leading regional environmental nonprofit, scanning the layers of leaf forms along
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Reframing the Invasive Species Challenge
Biological Invasion and North American Settler Colonialism
Daniel Schniedewind
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2023
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- 175–201 (27 total)
Untangling Introduced and Invasive Animals
Crystal Fortwangler
This article explores introduced and invasive species, untangling the ways in which disciplinary frameworks across the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities examine introduced and invasive species and their relations with human societies. It focuses on how attention to this topic varies as well as what the unifying factors and commonalities are, and what benefit we gain from a comparison of approaches. The article discusses work from a range of disciplines to examine and critique the ways in which we think about introduced and invasive species not only in ecological but also in social and cultural terms.
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2013
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- 41–59 (19 total)
Like a Tumbleweed in Eden
The Diasporic Lives of Concepts
Banu Subramaniam
obscured in our current environmental anxieties about invasive species. It is illustrative in thinking about colonialism and botany through the lens of the concept of diaspora. In previous work, 11 I have explored the field of invasive species management
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 1–16 (16 total)
From Invasive to Iconic
A New Cultural Typology of Introduced Species
Clayton Fordahl
; Mooney and Cleland 2001 ; Mooney and Drake 1986 ; Parker et al. 1989; Williamson 1996 ). Examples of invasive species abound. Invasive species include a wide variety of plants and animals, from mollusks to mammals, flowers to fish ( Anthony 2017
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2023
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- Research Article
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- 280–301 (22 total)
Book Reviews
Sarah Lyon, Mary Kelaita, Celia Lowe, L. Jen Shaffer, Christopher R. Cox, Constanza Ocampo-Raeder, James Finley, Barbara Rose Johnston, Amelia Fiske, Alex Blanchette, Julie A. Shepherd-Powell, Peter W. Stahl, Christopher Jarrett, and Amber R. Huff
ALKON, Alison Hope, Black, White, and Green: Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
CORMIER, Loretta, The Ten-Thousand Year Fever: Rethinking Human and Wild-Primate Malarias
DOBSON, Andrew, Kezia BARKER, and Sarah TAYLOR, Biosecurity: The Sociopolitics of Invasive Species and Infectious Disease
FOWLER, Cynthia, Ignition Stories: Indigenous Fire Ecology in the Indo-Australian Monsoon Zone
HUBER, Matthew T., Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital
KANE, Stephanie, Where the Rivers Meet the Sea: The Political Ecology of Water
KILCUP, Karen, Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781–1924
KRUPAR, Shiloh R., Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste
MORTON, Timothy, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
NAGY, Kelsi, and Phillip David JOHNSON II, eds., Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species
REECE, Erik, and James J. KRUPA, The Embattled Wilderness: The Natural and Human History of Robinson Forest and the Fight for Its Future
ROSTAIN, Stéphen, Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-Columbian Amazonia
SIEBERT, Stephen F., The Nature and Culture of Rattan: Reflections on Vanishing Life in the Forests of Southeast Asia
SODIKOFF, Genese Marie, Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2014
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- Book Review
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- 141–165 (25 total)
Bicho bandido
Wild boars, biological invasions and landscape transformations on the Brazilian–Uruguayan border (Pampas region)
Caetano Sordi
In this paper, I discuss the reactions to European wild boars () in the Brazilian–Uruguayan border region from an ethnographic point of view. Drawing on the concept of taskscape, I explore the reasons why these animals are regarded as ‘bandits’ by local agents, as well as the differences in perception between the threat posed by boars and by other non‐native species also present in the Pampa biome, such as Australian eucalyptus ( sp.), Pinus ( sp) and South‐African tough lovegrass (). By contrasting scientific and local views of ‘invasive species’, I argue that the reactions to are connected to the transformations that the Pampa landscape has been undergoing throughout its socio‐environmental history. Namely, the deeply agonistic pattern of human–animal relations that constituted the prairie, as well as the tensions concerning the relations of property and labour in rural areas. Furthermore, in line with the approach that sees landscapes as shaped by different ‘tasks’, I explore local notions of ‘work’ in order to offer an alternative interpretation for the problem of biological invasions, beyond the territorial approach that permeates the literature on the subject.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Aug 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 614–628 (14 total)
New Wine and Old Wineskins? Novel Ecosystems and Conceptual Change
Brendon M. H. Larson
increasingly questioned in cases ranging from invasive species ( Head 2012 ) to wilderness ( Cronon 1995 ) to the planet as a whole ( Steffen et al. 2011 ). There have been dramatic proposals to actively “introduce” human agency into natural areas, including
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 148–164 (17 total)
Righting Names
The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming for Environmental Justice
Rebekah Sinclair
familial and ethical relations represented and brought about by those names. The result is that very pressing problems—like water rights, use and distribution of “resources,” ecosystem management, and invasive species solutions—are all operating without
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 91–106 (16 total)
Book Reviews
Pierre Du Plessis and Sanal Mohan
ideological analysis of race – most evident with topics such as invasive species or the preservation of “natives” – is that it stridently disregards the life forms in question (the plants themselves) as mere screens on which racial projections are expressed
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 133–136 (4 total)
Afterword
Dangerous Mobilities
Mimi Sheller
Borovnik’s sailors. And dangerous mobilities have a kind of “performativity” insofar as they cause other things to happen: invasive species spread around the world, affecting entire ecosystems; human-made risks reverberate into cascading catastrophes