Frédéric Neyrat speaks to Elizabeth Johnson on the theoretical underpinnings of the anthropocene and his larger body of work.

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’.

Cities: An Environmental History by Ian Douglas is therefore a welcome reflection on a wide range of urban environmental issues. The title is somewhat misleading; this is not really a ‘history’ with a clearly periodised metanarrative that traces the evolution of urban environments. Instead, the book is structured around thematic chapters that cover an impressive range of issues.

In this piece we wish to emphasise that the kind of practices the move to declare cetaceans ‘non-human persons’ engenders are decidedly exceptionalist and reiterate the binomial logic of Human and Animal. What more-than-human and multispecies scholarship calls for, then, would be relational legislation grounded in relational ethics.

In this interview, Shiloh R Krupar speaks with Stuart Elden on her new book, "Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste".