Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7423578 | European Management Journal | 2017 | 10 Pages |
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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Authors
Jean Hillier,