Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities

Herausgeber: Frawley, Jodi; Mccalman, Iain

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Produktbeschreibung

Research from a uniquely humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. This book addresses the ongoing community concerns about invasive species and the ecological changes that we will together face in a climate changing world. It demonstrates beautifully how the environmental humanities can meaningfully impact discourse on environmental degradation. It allows us to rethink what has been a longstanding problem in global environmental history: the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. The book reveals how the nonhuman world must be examined in conjunction with cultural and historical processes. Particularly important is how it examines the prejudice toward nativism in much supposedly neutral environmental and ecological writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415716567
• ISBN-10: 041571656X
• Artikelnr.: 38393654

Autorenporträt

Jodi Frawley is a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia. Iain McCalman is a Professorial Research Fellow in History, University of Sydney. He is Co-Director of the new Sydney University Environment Institute, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 SETTING THE SCENE 1. Ecologies: the nature/culture challenge Part 2
INVASION AND THE ANTHROPOCENE 2. Back Story: Migration, Assimilation, and
Invasion in the Nineteenth Century 3. Fragments for a Postcolonial Critique
of the Anthropocene: Invasion Biology and Environmental Security 4.
Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Biography 5. Landscapes of the
Anthropocene: from dominion to dependence? Part 3 EVERDAY LIFE IN INVASION
ECOLOGIES 6. Living in a weedy future: insights from the garden 7.
Experiments in the rangelands: white bodies and native invaders 8. Thorny
problems: Industrial pastoralism and managing 'country' in Northwest
Queensland, Australia Part 4 ECOLOGICAL POLITICS OF IMAGINING OTHERWISE 9.
Prickly Pears and Martian Weeds: Ecological Invasion Narratives in the
History and Fiction 10. Cane Toads: Animality And Ecology In Mark Lewis's
Documentary Films 11. Wolvogs, Pigoons and Crakers-Invasion of the
Bodysplices in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake Part 5 UNRULY NATIVES AND
EXOTICS 12. Invasion ontologies: venom, visibility and the imagined
histories of arthropods 13. Naturalising Australian Trees in South Africa:
Climate, Exotics and Experimentation 14. Remaking wetlands: rice fields and
ducks in the Murrumbidgee River region, NSW 15.Invasion of the crocodiles