Conservation and invasive alien species: Violent love

Srinivasan, Krithika and Kasturirangan, Rajesh (2017) Conservation and invasive alien species: Violent love. In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 433-452. ISBN 978-1-137-43183-7

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

This chapter examines the abuse towards animals involved in the conservationist management of invasive alien species (IAS). It explores how the conservationist space of care becomes infused with discourses and practices that harm the very object of conservationist care—nonhuman nature. After outlining the prevalence and problematic nature of dominant approaches to IAS, the chapter draws on a Foucauldian analytical framework and literatures on the social construction of nature to explain and challenge the violent practices of care entailed in the management of those animals that are classified as IAS. The chapter concludes by arguing that the emphasis on collectivities of nonhuman life, such as biodiversity, and the invisibilisation of individual organisms allows for the displacement of responsibility from the human to the nonhuman and the abusive control that results.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Srinivasan, Krithika and Kasturirangan, Rajesh
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Maher, Jennifer UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pierpoint, Harriet UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Beirne, Piers UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Law > Labor, social, education & cultural law > Miscellaneous social problems and services > Environmental protection Natural Sciences > Animals (Zoology)
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7284
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43183-7_20

Actions (login required)

View Item