No place to go? Management of non-human animal overflows in Australia |
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Institution: | Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, RMIT University, City Campus, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia;School of Business, Economics & Law, Gothenburg Research Institute;Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;University of Warsaw, Poland |
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Abstract: | I discuss overflows of several introduced vertebrate species in Australia and critically explore their construction as national pests – overflows - appropriate for management by lethal control. I outline the thanato-politics and thanato-economics of managing selected non-human animals by toxic baiting and/or viral infection in ecologies of toxicity and the trophic cascades which may ensue. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, I explore creative potentialities for conservation managers of thinking in terms of milieu and environnementalité; exploration of the conditions of possibility for non-human animals to live in their milieus, considering relationalities with elements such as habitat fragmentation, fire regimes, pesticide use and so on. This could form a biopolitics which relocates biopower to within the subject rather than a thanato-politics of overflow, surplus and death. |
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Keywords: | Overflow Milieu Foucault Deleuze and Guattari Non-human animals |
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