Conservation and Invasive Alien Species: Violent Love

Srinivasan, Krithika; Kasturirangan, Rajesh

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-43183-7_20

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“…Conservationists often embody deep concern, even love, for wildlife and nature. Yet, this can be a "violent love" (Srinivasan & Kasturirangan 2017). Systemic harm of sentient animals in conservation is enabled by 3 ethical orientations: collectivism (or holism)-the belief that species matter more than individuals; instrumentalism-the treatment of an entity as a means to an end; and nativism-the view that populations established by humans are unnatural (Wallach et al 2018).…”

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Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation

Wallach

Batavia

Bekoff

et al. 2020

Conservation Biology

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Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation

Wallach

Batavia

Bekoff

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Conservation Biology

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“…Justifications for killing in conservation are often organised along spatial lines, namely ‘native’/’alien’ distinctions, reinforcing the spatial nature of animal death. Conservation of certain species is often accompanied by violence towards ‘invasive alien species’ (Srinivasan & Kasturirangan, 2017). This discourse of ‘alien’ species, such as the demonisation of possums in New Zealand as ‘alien invaders’ (Potts, 2009) helps to makes them killable.…”

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Distancing animal death: Geographies of killing and making killable

Mazhary

2021

Geography Compass

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At the intersection of death geographies and animal geographies, the topic of animal death offers crucial insights for how we understand death and how we define human/nonhuman boundaries. This review piece brings rich discussions of animal death across anthropology, critical animal studies and the environmental humanities into conversation with work in geography. This article takes a two-pronged approach; first, in recognition of the intensely spatial nature of death, this article explores where animal death takes place. This section observes how spaces of animal death are physically concealed and how this spatial distancing is aided by verbal concealment and dismemberment of the animal body, as well as how justifications for killing are organised along spatial lines. This helps to make animals killable in these spaces.The second section focuses on who is killed and made killable as well as who kills. The degree of being killable or grievable is highly uneven amongst animals, as it is amongst humans. Moreover, those individuals who routinely inflict animal death are subject to discrimination and vulnerability due to this proximity. Finally, the article concludes with reflections on what the topic of animal death can contribute to the death geographies and animal geographies literatures, and how we can move towards more animal-centric approaches to animal death.

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“…Focusing on the individualised injustices of extinction relates to a major ecological justice concern raised by extinction studies scholars. Scientific conservation and extinction discourses' emphasis on collectives (species, populations or statistics) inevitably erases individual-level suffering, violence and meaning (Chrulew, 2011;Parreñas, 2018;Srinivasan and Cochrane, 2020;Srinivasan and Kasturirangan, 2017;van Dooren, 2010van Dooren, , 2014. Observing that scientific conversations often emphasise numbers, statistics, percentages and population-level effects, van Dooren (2010Dooren ( , 2014 urges attention to the individually felt experience of pain within the collective process of extinction that are obscured by these emphases on collectives.…”

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‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum

Guasco

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article unites recent writing in extinction studies with work in political ecology, justice theory and museum studies to explore qualitative, cultural approaches to extinction. I examine the role of storytelling and the power of narratives in addressing nonhuman extinction. Analysing the case study of a permanent gallery on extinction, evolution and biodiversity loss – the Survival Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland – I utilise a more-than-textual approach to narrative analysis. This paper explores the diverse ways in which the gallery relates stories of ‘natural’ extinction to the contemporary anthropogenic ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’. The Survival Gallery narrates a remarkably complex compilation of extinction stories, but the gallery’s narrative avoids areas of conflict or controversy, obscures justice concerns and ultimately presents a problematic depiction of a universalised humanity. Using this analysis of museum extinction storytelling, the paper contributes to emerging conceptualisations of multispecies justice frameworks. The article explores the possibilities and challenges of museum storytelling in grappling with complicated pasts and envisioning potential futures of survival, coexistence and flourishing. The paper concludes by considering how a multispecies justice approach to narrating extinction (and other entangled ecological-social phenomena) might flourish within and beyond museums.

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Conservation and Invasive Alien Species: Violent Love

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation

Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation

Distancing animal death: Geographies of killing and making killable

‘As dead as a dodo’: Extinction narratives and multispecies justice in the museum

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