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“Global Ideas in Local Places: The Humanities in Environmental Management”
Libby Robin explores four key drivers of conservation initiatives: place, landscape, biodiversity, and livelihood.
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"Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism"
Affrica Taylor, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Sandrina de Finney, and Mindy Blaise edit and introduce a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism.” The three essays that follow ponder the question of ecological inheritance in the settler colonial contexts of Canada and Australia, cognizant of the fact that settler colonialism remains an incomplete project.
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"Thinking About Inheritance Through the Figure of the Anthropocene, from the Antipodes and in the Presence of Others"
In this article for a special section on “Inheriting the Ecological Legacies of Settler Colonialism,” Lesley Instone and Affrica Taylor engage with the figure of the Anthropocene as the impetus for rethinking the messy environmental legacies of Australian settler colonialism.
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"Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion"
The authors analyze the portrayal in popular conservation discourse of the flowering plant Rhododendron ponticum as an invasive species in the British countryside, especially Scotland. They explore how its invasiveness is materially produced via the cultural and socioeconomic as well as vegetal relations within which it is entangled.