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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.