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Prevention or Poisoning? Dilemmas in Urban Rat Control
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
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Seed Oysters in Entangled Worlds: Ecological Disturbances, Knowledge Making, and Potentialities in Miyagi, Japan
This article focuses on the contingent practices that constitute oyster aquaculture in contemporary Japan and the multiple forms of more-than-human entanglements that emerge as a result.
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Killing Cats in Garmisch
The Garmisch cat murder trial spotlights the hostility of the bird protection community towards felines.
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Stars, Mules, and Interferometers in Early Transnational Astronomy in 1960s Chile
This essay examines the multiple factors intertwined in the development of transnational astronomy in Chile in the 1960s.
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Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania
In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.
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Rabbits on the Edge: The Belonging of Pests in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park
This article thinks differently about the belonging of rabbits in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia.
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“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
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The Manifold Borders of a Locust Outbreak
This article discusses how local perspectives influence the recognition and control of a locust outbreak.
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Humans and Other Pollinators in the Oil Palm Plantation Complex
Humans have a long history of meddling in the oil palm’s sex life.
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A Crab’s-Eye View of the Food Chain in Contemporary China
This article rethinks Chinese foodways and invasive species from a crab’s perspective.