Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species

Benvegnù, Damiano

doi:10.5406/janimalethics.5.1.0112

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“…snakes, spiders) to situations (i.e. storms, dark forests) that can evoke evolutionarily hardwired emotions of fear (Dickman, 2010; Kellert, 2012; Nagy & Johnson, 2013; Soulsbury & White, 2015). We acknowledge the truth of these experiences and do not wish to craft a framework that promotes them, per se.…”

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Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

Langhans,

Echeverri,

Daws

et al. 2023

People and Nature

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As humanity has become increasingly urban, a growing number of people have been deprived of access to nature and the benefits it provides. This is especially true for marginalized groups, who often live in neighbourhoods where nature has been so diminished and degraded that it provides fewer types, and much lower levels of benefits. We review the literatures on human–nature relationships, urban sustainability and justice to create an actionable definition of ‘access to nature’ that people can use to advocate for and guide investments that improve access to nature in urban contexts. We show how the interplay of three dimensions of justice—recognitional, procedural and distributional—determines access to nature in cities, and how these dimensions are core to increasing access to urban nature. We present a design thinking framework that centres justice in creating interventions for access to nature, together with questions that can guide the process of designing and implementing new interventions. Lastly, we illustrate how our framework can be operationalized by showcasing three case studies that improve access to nature to marginalized communities in the United States: Latino Outdoors, Sogorea Te′ Land Trust and the Nature Imagery in Prisons Project. We conclude by re‐affirming the importance of centring justice in improving access to nature, so that all people can enjoy the benefits that nature provides and lead healthy, fulfilling lives. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Section: What Is Access To Nature?mentioning

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Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

Langhans,

Echeverri,

Daws

et al. 2023

People and Nature

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“…Hannah felt the SIBC changed what counts as ‘proper birdwatching’, widening access to previously excluded social groups (cf., Cooper & Smith, 2010; Lea et al, 2015). For instance, the SIBC encouraged encounters with mundane, scruffy natures that are not often valued in mainstream wildlife media (Nagy et al, 2013). Meaningful multispecies encounters were reconfigured to include nonhumans like feral pigeons, crows, snails and garden hedges.…”

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Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club

Turnbull

Searle

Lorimer

2022

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Exploring the political ecology of undomestication in the wastelands of the Anthropocene, we are aided also by the emerging cross-disciplinary literature on waste (Gille 2007;Hawkins 2006;Reno 2014Reno , 2015Reno , 2016, in particular the study of "trash animals" and other non-humans who make a living on the landfills and wastelands of capitalism (Nagy and Johnston 2013;Zahara and Hird 2015). In the decades following William Cronon's (1995) famous call to pay scholarly attention to the wildness of urban sidewalks, gardens, dumps, and other instances of "wrong nature," waste has become the focus of much work in the social and environmental sciences.…”

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Wasteland Ecologies: Undomestication and Multispecies Gains on an Anthropocene Dumping Ground

Hoag

Bertoni

Bubandt

2018

Journal of Ethnobiology

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On the western edge of the former brown coal mines in Søby, an area in central Jutland in Denmark that is now protected as a natural and cultural heritage site, a public eyesore hides behind dirt mounds and fences: the waste disposal and recycling facility known as AFLD Fasterholt. Established in the 1970s, when prevailing perceptions were that the entire mining area was a polluted wasteland, the AFLD Fasterholt waste and recycling plant has since changed in response to new EU waste management regulations, as well as the unexpected proliferation of non-human life in the area. Based on field research at this site—an Anthropocene landscape in the heartland of an EU-configured welfare-state—this article is a contribution to the multispecies ethnography and political ecology of wastelands. We argue that “waste” is a co-species, biopolitical happening—a complex symbolic, political, biological, and technological history. We combine ethnographic fieldwork, social history, wildlife observation, and spatial analysis to follow what we call “undomestication,” the reconfiguration of human projects by more-than-human forms of life into novel assemblies of species, politics, resources, and technologies. Waste landscapes, this article argues, are the result of unheralded multispecies collaboration that can be traced empirically by attending ethnographically to multispecies forms of “gain-making,” the ways in which humans and other species leverage difference to find economic and ecological opportunity.

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Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species

Cited by 3 publications

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Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature

Anthropause environmentalisms: Noticing natures with the Self‐Isolating Bird Club

Wasteland Ecologies: Undomestication and Multispecies Gains on an Anthropocene Dumping Ground

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