Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Plants have identity across ‘dynamic boundaries'. . .
. . . they have material form as both individual and collective, self and nonself, fixture and indeterminacy, versatility and degeneracy, balancing between associative and dissociative processes.
Plant bodies are both the same as and different from human and other bodies; they resist and move (as animals might) but they do these things differently.
Plant bodies challenge and energise human-centred concepts of the body. They express different forms of collectivity, mobility, and agency.
Invasive plant management is often framed as a continental-scale problem, using maps of frontiers and a discourse of war, but eradication is undertaken at the micro scale, in spaces where human, animal, and plant bodies interact.
We cannot appeal to a past or stable Nature, separable from human activity, as the basis of decision making. Uncertainty does not relieve us from having to make political choices.
Analysing invasive plant management at the bodily scale highlights new political and ethical choices not otherwise visible.
Eradication – usually thought of as a separationist process, a process of pulling apart individual plants, and pulling apart plants and people – is rather a process of living, and dying, together.
Eradication is a process whose outcomes are uncertain.
Management approaches should acknowledge the realities of living in a long-term relationship with invasives, this is not necessarily a comfortable relationship.
Plants have the potential to energise our thinking about new ways of living in the world, but this will require increased recognition of the planty subjects...
... as well as greater ethical engagement with questions of our mutual living and dying.
Drawing on a heatwave case study in Western Sydney, Australia, the paper explores how practices of thermal comfort for particular, often privileged, bodies may be understood as sensory enablers of climate change denial.
This paper explores the policy concept and community enactments of ‘shared responsibility’ for disaster resilience in the context of wildfires in Victoria, Australia.
Hannah Arendt developed a twofold account of ‘being earthbound’ directly relevant to Anthropocene debates regarding the political. For Arendt, both senses of ‘being earthbound’ arose as humans began to act into nature, not merely upon it.
cholars and practitioners of urban planning need to rethink the field’s futures at this important historical juncture: some might call it a moment of truth when there is little left to hide. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many cracks, contradictions, and inequalities that have always existed but are now more visible. This also includes the global vaccine apartheid that is ongoing as I write these words. Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining.
I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed.
Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real.
They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Moreover, this is a time when the violence through which U.S. imperialism has exercised power worldwide is increasingly exposed. Protests in the summer of 2020, which spread all over the United States like fire through a long-dried haystack, showed Americans and the whole world that racialized violence and police brutality are real. They also revealed that such brutality is spatially facilitated in American apartheid—a condition that planning has been far from innocent in creating and maintaining. I think this reckoning is particularly important in the United States, the belly of the beast, where there might have been more of an illusion about planning innocence.
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Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head’s article “Eradicating bodies in invasive plant management” appears in issue 6 of the 2013 volume of Society and Space. As an accompaniment to the article, this photo gallery follows the practice and politics of invasive plant management through photographs taken by Atchison and Head as part of Head’s Australian Laureate fellowship project ‘The Social Life of Invasive Plants’.
Plants have identity across ‘dynamic boundaries'. . .
. . . they have material form as both individual and collective, self and nonself, fixture and indeterminacy, versatility and degeneracy, balancing between associative and dissociative processes.
Plant bodies are both the same as and different from human and other bodies; they resist and move (as animals might) but they do these things differently.
Plant bodies challenge and energise human-centred concepts of the body. They express different forms of collectivity, mobility, and agency.
Invasive plant management is often framed as a continental-scale problem, using maps of frontiers and a discourse of war, but eradication is undertaken at the micro scale, in spaces where human, animal, and plant bodies interact.
We cannot appeal to a past or stable Nature, separable from human activity, as the basis of decision making. Uncertainty does not relieve us from having to make political choices.
Analysing invasive plant management at the bodily scale highlights new political and ethical choices not otherwise visible.
Eradication – usually thought of as a separationist process, a process of pulling apart individual plants, and pulling apart plants and people – is rather a process of living, and dying, together.
Eradication is a process whose outcomes are uncertain.
Management approaches should acknowledge the realities of living in a long-term relationship with invasives, this is not necessarily a comfortable relationship.
Plants have the potential to energise our thinking about new ways of living in the world, but this will require increased recognition of the planty subjects...
... as well as greater ethical engagement with questions of our mutual living and dying.
