Naturalizing Trout? Fish Farming in German Southwest Africa
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 33
non-native species
American Cockroaches, Racism, and the Ecology of the Slave Ship
Arcadia, Autumn 2017, no. 29
A Post-Wilderness National Park: Naturecultures of Destruction and Recuperation in the Castlemaine Goldfields
“Hit them hard and hit them well.” Possums, Pollution, and the Past in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 10
"Botanical Transculturation: Japanese and British Knowledge and Understanding of Aucuba japonica and Larix leptolepis 1700-1920"
This article aims to demonstrate the complexity of the interchange of Japanese and European knowledge of natural history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
"Motives for Introducing Species: Palestine's Carp as a Case Study"
This article examines the contribution of socio-cultural and economic motives to the process of introductions and invasions of species, in this case, the introduction of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to Palestine’s freshwaters in the 1930s, while suggesting a third motive, an ideological one.
Forget About It: Purposeful Ignorance (of Waste) in a City Nature Preserve
Kleinstuck Marsh in Michigan is not the pristine, untouched landscape it might at first seem. Once a peat bog, the property was drained for a botanical garden and later sold as an unwanted piece of property and embedded with sewage pipes for a neighboring housing development, before becoming a nature preserve.
"Native Species, Human Communities and Cultural Relationships"
In this paper, the author argues that species may also be native or non-native to human communities and that, by way of an analogy with varieties of domesticated and cultivated species, that this sense of nativity is grounded by the cultural relationships human communities have with species.
"Strangers in a Strange Land: The Problem of Exotic Species"
In this essay, Marks Woods and Paul Veatch Moriatry try to answer two philosophical questions in order to develop and enact sensible policies: (1) What exactly makes a species native or exotic, and (2) What values are at stake?
"Exotic Species, Naturalisation, and Biological Nativism"
Ned Hettinger argues that exotic species should not be identified as damaging species, species introduced by humans, or species originating from some other geographical location and presents an alternative characterization.