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Back Story: Migration, Assimilation and Invasion in the Nineteenth Century [book chapter]

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Ritvo, Harriet
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Abstract
Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards to this old issue. Written by a team of international scholars, this book allows us to rethink the impact on national, regional or local ecologies of the deliberate or accidental introduction of foreign species, plant and animal. Modern environmental approaches that treat nature with naïve realism or mobilize it as a moral absolute, unaware or unwilling to accept that it is informed by specific cultural and temporal values, are doomed to fail. Instead, this book shows that we need to understand the complex interactions of ecologies and societies in the past, present and future over the Anthropocene, in order to address problems of the global environmental crisis. It demonstrates how humanistic methods and disciplines can be used to bring fresh clarity and perspective on this long vexed aspect of environmental thought and practice.
Date issued
2014
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83082
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
Journal
Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities
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Ritvo, Harriet. "Back Story: Migration, Assimilation, and Invasion in the Nineteenth Century." in Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities, edited by Jodi Frawley, Iain McCalman. (New York: Routledge, 2014), chapter 2.
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9780415716567
9780415716574

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