Mobile Life: Biosecurity Practices and Insect Globalization

Assessing awareness of tree pests and pathogens amongst tree professionals: A pan-European perspective

“…The resources required to prevent or mitigate introductions, or control pests, are rarely sufficient. For example, several authors claim that inspection at ports of entry is inadequate (Brasier 2008;Liebhold et al 2012;Clark 2013;Roy et al 2014). No matter how knowledgeable and aware tree professionals may become, these issues of scale and resource will likely persist.…”

The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration

“…To date, much of the focus of biosecurity e a field rife with analogies to military defense (Clark, 2013;Lakoff and Collier, 2008;Martin, 1994) e focuses on calculating risks and then mitigating change. The will to secure is taken as an imperative to shore up a border against a shared enemy; debate and difference become cast as problems to be reconciled into the consensus of a common vision.…”

Regulating epidemic space: the nomos of global circulation

“…In an uncanny resonance with the vocabulary of current social theory, the IHR focus on the 'vibrant matters' (Jane Bennett) and 'insect media' (Jussi Parikka) that are vectors of transmission. What actually matters are the multiple connections established by all kinds of substances in motion, no matter if they are fluid or solid, organic or inorganic, animate or inanimate (Clark 2013). Taking into account the 'ecologies of pathogenicity' (Collier and Lakoff 2008: 9), the IHR extend the concept of global public health to all the materialities involved in the planetary movements that they seek to secure.…”