Rethinking invasion ecologies from the environmental humanities /

"Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions a...

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Main Authors: Frawley, Jodi (Author, Editor), McCalman, Iain (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge environmental humanities.
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505 0 |a Setting the scene : introduction / Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman -- Back story : migration, assimilation and invasion in the nineteenth century / Harriet Ritvo -- No tears for crocodiles / Simon Pooley -- Remaking wetlands : rice fields and ducks in the Murrumbidgee / Emily O'Gorman -- Natives and invasives in experiments in the rangelands / Cameron Muir -- The borders between Heaven and Hell : environmental threats and possibilities in utopias and dystopias / Peter Marks -- Prickly pears and Martian weeds : ecological invasion narratives in history and fiction / Christina Alt -- Cane toads : the shifting cultural taxonomy of an Australian icon / Morgan Richards -- Containing Australian prickly pear : tropes of population and race in the management of invasive species in Queensland 1925 / Jodi Frawley -- Resilience in the Anthropocene : a global concept with local origins / Libby Robin -- Invasion ontologies : venom, visibility and the imagined histories of arthropods / Peter Hobbins -- Human agency, "invasion" and the adaptation of species in the making of new landscapes / Eric Pawson -- Fragmentary notes to a postcolonial critique of the Anthropocene / Gilbert Caluya -- The social life of weeds / Lesley Head -- Doing right by country : the pastoral industry and prickle bush / Haripriya Rangan -- Intercultural weeds management : modernity, indigenous governance and native title in the Kimberley, Australia / Jess Weir. 
520 |a "Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards to this old issue. Written by a team of international scholars, this book allows us to rethink the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. Modern environmental approaches that treat nature with naïve realism or mobilize it as a moral absolute, unaware or unwilling to accept that it is informed by specific cultural and temporal values, are doomed to fail. Instead, this book shows that we need to understand the complex interactions of ecologies and societies in the past, present and future over the Anthropocene, in order to address problems of the global environmental crisis. It demonstrates how humanistic methods and disciplines can be used to bring fresh clarity and perspective on this long vexed aspect of environmental thought and practice.Students and researchers in environmental studies, invasion ecology, conservation biology, environmental ethics, environmental history and environmental policy will welcome this major contribution to environmental humanities"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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